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....
(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...
Friends, Community, and Labels
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...
When You Can’t Feel Jesus
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...
MY BOOK // Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
MY FAVORITE WRITING COMMUNITY
