Exploring the Wild & Beautiful Places of Faith
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
Last week, the President nominated a woman to fill the newly vacant seat on the Supreme Court and feminists everywhere cheered. Once again, a woman would be presiding on the highest court of the land, bringing her impressive legal history and intellect to bear on some of the most consequential cases of our time. She…
By now you probably know that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on Friday. I donāt line up with all, or probably many, of her ideologies. But what I can absolutely admire and applaud is that she was a woman raised in poverty who didnāt let her beginnings make her a victim. She was a…
Yāall still standing? What a couple of weeks this has been. Or perhaps longer. In quarantine, time stands still and yet somehow, weāre nearly half way through June. I have been sitting here for days (weeks?), trying to put words together to say something about the social unrest, about the searing wounds opened and bleeding…
As an achiever, Enneagram 1, ENTJ or whatever else box my personality supposedly checks, I have a tendency to drift towards Getting. Things. Done.Ā In this season of quarantine, Iām finding myself drawn towards the projects and to-do lists and annoyed with what disrupts my flow or keeps me from doing what I want. Mainly,…
Continue reading ➞ A Key To Sanity in the Midst of the Virus
First Girl asks me at breakfast, why would Jesus pick Judas if he knew he'd be a thief and a traitor? And why didnāt Judas go back to Jesus when it was all said and done, asking for forgiveness? Truth be told, Iāve never thought through that first question in my life. And that second…
I'm wiping up one kid's throw-up in the middle of the night when I finally concede that this is a hard season we're walking through. It snuck up on us and now we're smack in the middle trying to survive each day and not let the whole circus come crashing down. When you've walked through…
Continue reading ➞ Monday Motivation: Can a Season Be Both Good AND Hard?