by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 22, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Community, Faith, Fear
You can stand with hands raised in worship one day and kneel with hands over your face in frustration hours later. It is entirely possible to sing and smile on Sunday only to lay awake Sunday night with tears trickling into your ears, eyes staring straight upward,...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 17, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday
Let your roots grow into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Colossians 2:7 Even when the rain falls Even when the flood starts rising Even when the storm...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 15, 2014 | Beauty, Broken and Raw, Family, Fear
This is a follow up to the recent post We will not – can not – shrink back or shrink down just to please another. Sun streams in mid-morning and I stumble down the stairs after completing my morning work routine. There are days things go long or go wrong...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 14, 2014 | Books, Faith, Generation Y
There are people who doubt my generation. They say we live on our phones, are selfish, and don’t care for anyone other than “me, myself, and I.” And there are days I believe that, too. But then I meet others who believe differently and are doing...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 10, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Community, Faith, Fear, Five Minute Friday
I see you in the corner, picking at your fingernails and ducking your head. You’re fighting back the lies and pushing against the walls you’ve built inside but you’re stuck. Every time someone attempts to help, to love on you, to whisper kind things,...