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Mess {Five Minute Friday}

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 1, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Five Minute Friday, Love

I dare you to hold open the door and drop the smiling face for more than two seconds. I dare you to be quiet. I dare you to speak up when it’s time and not a minute earlier. I dare you. In a culture so desensitized to the word love, in a time when we love rainy...

To Myself, From Myself: A Letter

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 30, 2014 | Beauty, Broken and Raw, Faith, Haiti, Story

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

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 28, 2014 | (in)courage, Broken and Raw, Community, Faith, Fear, God Sized Dream, Story

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...

Friends, Community, and Labels

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 24, 2014 | Beauty, Broken and Raw, Community, Fear, Five Minute Friday, God Sized Dream, Story

When you label yourself as anything other than a daughter of the King, you limit yourself. Labels limit. When you build up the fences to keep a watchful eye, to protect your heart and yourself, you just keep others out. You can keep building up fences but you’re...

The Grace of the Grave

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 20, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Easter, Faith, Love

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...

When You Can’t Feel Jesus

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Apr 19, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Easter, Faith, Fear

Sunday healed what Friday broke but Saturday finds us holding our breath, stuck in the middle. Heaven waits patient and ready and I wait for redemption, reconciliation, restoration. I see the body broken and the Body broken and I weep and wail at the foot of the cross...