by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Aug 2, 2016 | Books, Broken and Raw, Faith, Joy, Story
I like to fix stuff. And by that I mean that I like to solve problems and make things happen and accomplish all the things and throw away to-do lists because everything has been checked off. And in the middle of all this fixing, Jesus is teaching me to slow down. Over...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 19, 2016 | Broken and Raw, Faith, Faithful
i. I don’t like to be late. I can’t promise to arrive early, but the Type-A side of me and the piece that still wants to please people is highly uncomfortable with being late. ii. Two Sundays ago, I ran around the apartment, threw my shoes on, and...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jul 6, 2016 | Broken and Raw, Faith, My Health Story
It’s 10:46pm on July 5, 2016 and I’m crying at a blank page. There is so much to say and somehow it feels like I’ve written every single line before. It also feels brand new. There’s nothing new to say under the sun and we’ve gone around...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jun 30, 2016 | Faith, My Health Story
Everything changed six years ago. After months of praying for answers, we got them. Five months of sickness, questions, doubts and frustrations came together mid-morning on the last day of June. The nurse led us from the waiting room to the one room I had seen but...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jun 27, 2016 | Faith, Generation Y
Last week I sat down to wade through the drafted posts here, the words that never turned into sentences and the sentences that never saw the light of day. I came across this draft from summer of 2013. Somehow my post-grad self needed to read these words and I wonder...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jun 9, 2016 | Faith, Traveling
It happened while driving in the car and again walking on a dirt road, my long maxi skirt swishing around my ankles. It happened again in Israel. I’ve been to Haiti three times. And each time, God gave me a song. It doesn’t matter where I am or what...