The Giveaway

©Joy Dunlap  https://joydunlap.com The workman in our backyard held up a feather and pointed to it. “It’s a hawk feather,” I said through the glass in our sunroom. His eyes widened, and he pointed to the trees further back in our yard. I nodded. He looked up to the...

Seeing the Face of Jesus

©Joy Dunlap  https://joydunlap.com “It would take a miracle,” the ER doctor said. Earlier, when I arrived at my brother’s apartment, flashing lights from a firetruck, EMT vans, and a police car added to the surrealness and the shock. “They’ve been working on him for...

What Can You Count On This Year?

©Joy Dunlap  https://joydunlap.com What do you expect this year to bring?   What can you count on? We may set goals, establish resolutions, pick words of the year, and dive into new activities to try to make life better.  Expectations may be that if we do X, Y might...

Is the Gift Card Still Valid?

©Joy Dunlap  https://joydunlap.com The pain jabbing in my leg muscle and hip kept waking me up at night.  When I walked, the pain radiated.  Trying not to limp proved difficult in my own strength, despite my best efforts to try to focus one foot in front of the other....

Crash Confession

©Joy Dunlap  https://joydunlap.com Bam! I heard and felt the hit as my head jerked back and forth. Stunned by having been solidly stopped while backing my car out of the garage, I looked in the rearview mirror. Could this day get any worse? Uh, yessss. That impact I...

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