Exploring the Wild & Beautiful Places of Faith
For those that would prefer to listen, rather than read. My friend’s husband died this week. Or do we say passed away? I’m not used to this kind of thing, the losing of people when they’re young and their kids are babes and their now-widows haven’t 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 America’s 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. The spotting started while we were out of town celebrating my brother’s 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 don’t 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 didn’t let her beginnings make her a victim. She was a…
Y’all still standing? What a couple of weeks this has been. Or perhaps longer. In quarantine, time stands still and yet somehow, we’re 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. In this season of quarantine, I’m 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 didn’t Judas go back to Jesus when it was all said and done, asking for forgiveness? Truth be told, I’ve 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?
Friday mid-morning I head to the mailbox, already discouraged by the few hours of too fast starts, emotional melt downs (mine and the minis) and being a tired, less than gracious mama. Sitting in the pile of car ads and political mailers is a note, a lifeline. In the midst of the swirling, there comes…