Sacred Smallness, Real Life is Now There are almost 100 unpublished posts in my draft folder, and a erroneous click of an arrow brought this to the top of the tier today. It’s at least 2 years old, but it made me smile. The only thing I’d add to the romantic musing is that while the […]
This Is What Remains (real life is now)
The past several days have been difficult – not in their entirety, but overall. When I started this series, I had a sense of some things that might come our way mid-month and they did. Other unexpected things piggy backed on those, and so for five days we seemed to weather one crisis or challenge […]
Spiritual Boundaries, Part 2: Real Life is Now
(post #12) writing for a month within the sacred smallness of this very real life: see all posts here Note: this is the second part to a short series-within-a-series on spiritual boundaries. Read introductory story here. I love my charismatic upbringing. The confidence afforded me in my relationship with Christ, the foundational assurance that I am loved, and wanted, and […]
Things Reset: Sacred Smallness, Real Life Is Now
(post #7) I’ve just returned from a women’s retreat where I had the privilege of listening to my Mama speak. Two of my aunts, my sister and my sister-in-law also attended, so we all had our own mini-retreat within the retreat, if you know what I’m saying. Girl-talk around a fire, cheesecake at midnight, massages, chocolate, […]
Still The Loneliness Reeks
(post #6) see list of all posts here _________________ Where are you in this grid of stone quarried from what lies beneath the hills of Sonoma County? The Flying Goat boasts windows of sunlight, walls of minimalistic white, coffee roasted at $16 a pound, and still the scent of urine comes in its doors. Where […]
Grace Applied (More Thoughts on Boundaries): Real Life is Now
(post #5) see list of all posts here I’m combing through my draft folder tonight, and am surprised to find this post from two years ago that is in keeping with the theme already swimming in my mind: boundaries, perimeters. Here you go: It is a rainy 2 o’clock appointment, when the counselor and I crash against the concept […]
Sacred Smallness: A 31 Day Series
“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.” Posts in This Series Boundaries in Marriage Boundaries in Parenting Shake Out and Play, Mama (a poem) Grace Applied: More Thoughts on Boundaries Still The Loneliness Reeks (a poem) Things Reset Weaning Contrite and Lowly: Thoughts on Isaiah 57 The Gift Of You (a […]
Wild and Free
I lived in Oklahoma for 5 years, and failed at every flower I planted. Our porch planters would burn, our gardens would flood, our sunflowers would be eaten by locust. It wasn’t that it was impossible to keep living things alive, just that one actually had to tend them, and I couldn’t. I was too busy keeping […]
You Write With Your Life
So you wander the world and you write and you write and you post and you blog and you – You connect. You don’t know that’s what you’re doing, but it is, you are connecting with something bigger than yourself, something outside yourself, something to give perspective and adult sound to the days of toddlers […]
What is it you want? Don’t take the easy way out.
“Don’t focus on your fear of burnout; remember to stay open and receptive so that you are filled up with love and energy from God, and from that you can pour out onto everyone around you. Don’t withhold. If you feel yourself drying up, it is because you aren’t connecting with God as your Source as well […]
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