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Ashes to Beauty: Renewal

by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 5, 2014 | Broken and Raw, Community, Faith, Fear, Story

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

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...

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...