Exploring the Wild & Beautiful Places of Faith
Audio of this post, read by me. No matter how you're looking at this world, the days are getting crazier. We're fractured, contentious, intentionally pitted as "us vs them" rather than "we." Tyranny is moving from the history books to the headlines with stunning swiftness. This isn't the first time in history that the days…
I used to think the good life was the busy life. Because surely busy meant meaningful, rich, influential, exciting. But I've come to see that there's a difference between busy and full. The busy life is one where the minutes are always too few for the list that is always too long. The motion of…
Continue reading ➞ Busy vs Full: Do you know the difference?
A couple weeks ago I had the privilege to MC the Renovation Conference, a two-day event focused on meaningful conversations around faith, family, and sexuality. While the conference is over, you can still view the 15 breakouts and 4 main stage session online, beginning November 5. For more information, click here. There was so much…
What. A. Summer. News of late (that could mean 2 weeks or 18 months, with the way things are going) has had something for everyone. Wars? Check. Natural Disasters? Check. Assassinations? Political unrest? Threat of job loss? Check, check, check. There is much to fear in this world. And yet.....we are told over and over…
It has been nearly a week of Texas protecting their smallest residents and the hysteria from abortion defenders is still at a fever-pitch. Yet in their maddness claiming that Texas women are oppressed (the women of Afghanistan might beg to differ on what is defined as "oppressed"), they fail to see how their rhetoric is…
They say itās a historic week. A week where a woman took the oath for the second-highest office in the land. If that were all, I could applaud. Yet the tragic irony is that this same woman and the administration she is part of are determined to do everything in their power to decimate the…
Continue reading ➞ Is This the Kind of History Worth Celebrating?
I donāt need to hear more voices telling me the train is careening precariously close to the canyon cliff. I can see it with my own eyes.ā£ā£And I donāt need more finger pointed, anger laced, fear based sound bites trying to simplify this tangled mess.ā£ So I'll let my words be few as well.ā£ What…
For those that would prefer to listen, rather than read. My friendās husband died this week. Or do we say passed away? Iām not used to this kind of thing, the losing of people when theyāre young and their kids are babes and their now-widows havenāt even hit their thirties. No matter how you try…
From every side the battery of voices is telling us this is the most important election of our time. While every election matters for how it will at minimum set the course for the next few years of a nation, Election 2020 feels like a choosing between two very different narratives of Americaās past, present…
Continue reading ➞ The Most Important Result for Election 2020
This post was originally sent as a Live Action email on October 15, 2020, for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day.Ā The spotting started while we were out of town celebrating my brotherās wedding. I frantically googled every day, playing doctor while the whisper of fear started to form a knot in my stomach. Four…
Continue reading ➞ In remembrance: I am one of the women silently grieving the loss of a baby