Grateful {Five Minute Friday}
She says she’ll teach me. November 9th, 2013 seems a life-time ago but really, just six months separate us from a lunch off campus that turned into afternoon coffee, too, and a 3am chat about friendship and queso and everything in between. Maybe it was...
Ashes to Beauty: Renewal
Shaking, clammy fingers and a heartbeat so loud I’m shocked those in the room can’t hear it over my typing… but I write and focus on breathing. In. Out. In. Out. Again. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. I hear it again and again in my head....
To Myself, From Myself: A Letter
One day short of five weeks back in a land that feels a little bit less like home, and today the words find the page. I’d say Haiti stole a piece of my heart but I gave it away willingly. And they gave back so much more. This letter is just as much, if not more,...
(in)RL: daily community and messy ordinary coming together
Around a couple of long tables in a room in Arkansas, (in)RL 2014: We Need Your Story was born. The night before, Holley Gerth looked me straight in the eye over dinner and asked about my God-Sized Dream. Sweaty palms and all, I looked straight back and told her about...
The Grace of the Grave
One day the grave could conceal Him no longer One day the stone rolled away from the door Then He arose, over death He had conquered Now He’s ascended, My Lord ever more Death could not hold Him, the grave could not keep Him From rising again Living, He loved me...
MY BOOK // Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
MY FAVORITE WRITING COMMUNITY
