If You’re Showing up to a New Week with Empty Hands…
If you’re empty, exhausted, or overwhelmed today, this is for you. To be honest, I wrote it for myself because I desperately needed a reminder of hope in the midst of the crazy. I took this picture of limestone and teal, of bright red flowers blooming tall, two...
Trust Me, I Won’t Miss the Flowers This Time.
This is my third June in Birmingham and the first time I’ve noticed the flowers. To be honest, my first June was extremely lonely and overwhelming. Even writing that sentence feels sad and heavy… and two years have gone by. June of 2015 stretched into...
#beautifulordinarynow
Do you ever feel like your regular life is just completely, 100% ordinary and yet it’s absolutely the place God has called you to? Or is that just me… I’ve been to Haiti (three times) and recently spent two weeks exploring Israel which basically...
The Art That Made Me Cry. Twice.
I’ve started to pay attention to my tears. I won’t deny it, I cry easily. Movies (and commercials), make-believe stories, songs on the radio, the list goes on and on. If you cry, I will likely cry in response. Over the past year, though, I’ve...
The Beautiful Truth
Many months ago, God led me to write about the lies I often tell myself. A couple months later, I wrote a post I never once imagined writing, much less publishing. And then a couple months later, I tapped away at a computer screen a little post about how it really is...
A book for the broken hopefuls… Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
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