#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...
So if Your Thighs Touch, This:
These words were originally posted on my old blog back when that thing existed. I’m honored to have shared this post on the National Eating Disorder Information Centre site, too. And now here we are again, bathing suit season, and it just seems fitting to share...
Dear Haiti, You’re Beautiful
“You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” We’re home. But part of my heart didn’t come back....
A book for the broken hopefuls… Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
