Ruth E. Hetland

February 13, 2014

I Didn’t Know

You have me still You have me You have me You have my heart completely. – Gungor Jesse was sick last night. It was the awful throwing-up-every-half-hour kind of sickness. He cried because his stomach hurt so badly and he hated the vomiting. Sweet child. I kept thinking back to when he […]
February 4, 2014

Dreaming…

I try very hard to not get excited about things too quickly. I like to have a good balance between hoping for the future and living in the present. But lately I’m having a difficult time not thinking about opportunities and possibilities. You know how it is when the perfect thing comes along at just […]
January 31, 2014

Moving Day

I drove up and saw the moving truck was already parked in the driveway. She had enlisted help from me and three others – all friends in the community. She is a pastor, too – which means there were many boxes of books, plenty of religious art, scads of paperwork from this seminar and that […]
January 30, 2014

The Bell Tolled 91 Times

The church bell tolled ninety-one times this afternoon as we brought her out to the cemetery. The wind swept like a brush through the grass and picked up bits of dust, carrying it far off over the cedars and live oaks. “Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” I said and sprinkled the […]

I Didn’t Know