Author: Tammy Strait

I like to believe there is a light inside my spirit. There’s one in you too. It’s the peaceful, calming glow of a single candlelight burning in the darkness. Not a light of or from ourselves, but a light that reflects the One who lives in us. The One to whom all good things are possible. […]

Over a decade and I still remember like yesterday. Turning the key, I opened the door and walked into the quiet stillness of the house. At the threshold one woman—inside, another. Alone. Not a single noise, not one thing out of place, and yet I knew. As if walking directly into a wall, I knew. My […]

Thunder groans through a grey streaked sky. Ominous dark, shoulders in. Rain. Drenching summer rain. It’s like that sometimes. Life: cloudy skies and threatening storms, a seemingly endless pouring rain. And just when one storm passes another rolls in behind. We watch. We wait. We crash like lightning. Sometimes no matter what we do, no […]

` You don’t know me. I’m not that girl anymore. The one who used to listen when you came for me in the darkness, when you haunted me in my sleep. Kept me awake at night with your lies, your untruth, your malicious scheming ways. I believed you. Believed I wasn’t enough. Dirty, unwanted, rejected, […]