by Merita Atherly Engen | Nov 26, 2014 | Intro & Knowing God, Points of Light
Edna stepped inside the door and offered her ruby-red, Thanksgiving treasure in a Tupperware container. This wasn’t the first time Edna had shown up at the front door of my daughter’s home, her warm smile erasing what were most likely wrinkles of weariness. Back when...
by Merita Atherly Engen | Nov 5, 2014 | Fatherly, God of Our Ultimates, Humorous, Points of Light, Protector, Shining on God's Character, Survival
“Why didn’t you, God?” Esther snapped. She slammed the lady’s room stall door and jerked the lock into its latch. “We trusted you. We prayed.” She dropped with a thud onto the commode. “This was suppose to be the perfect vacation. Why did you let this happen?”...
by Merita Atherly Engen | Oct 23, 2014 | Destiny, God of Our Ultimates, Grief, Healer, Points of Light, Shining on God's Character
“Are the rooms clean?” I asked when I called for reservations. Well, I didn’t know. It was a center, a Family Reconciliation Center they called it, made available for the family and friends of those incarcerated while they came for prison visitation. I had never done...
by Merita Atherly Engen | Oct 9, 2014 | God of Our Ultimates, Healer, Identity, Joyful, Points of Light, Shining on God's Character
Guest Blog, Poetry, and Photography by JerryAnn Berry Finding my way to identity while filled with the shame of sin and abuse was like a maze of mirrors. I never knew if what I was seeing was my reflection at all. In the end I realized God found me and He knew where I...
by Merita Atherly Engen | Sep 29, 2014 | Creative, Faithful, Forgiving, Loving, Points of Light, Respectful, Shining on God's Character
His heart burned with love and there was no cure. Night and day the glory of it consumed his being. Tortuous burning. White hot and pure. He longed to communicate, to reach out, to touch, and to finally know that he had been heard and perhaps, just perhaps, been...
