Make Space for the Beautiful and Brave

January 29, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

We could hear it in the background, serenading us as we shoveled chips and salsa and sipped on margaritas. Those crazy brave people singing karaoke in the back. We cringed as girls sang One Direction and laughed as bold men sang their hearts out to the classics. We finished our meals and suddenly my friend […]

Make Space for Healing

January 22, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

When we ask for a situation to be fixed, He says I am with you. Not always what we are looking for, but always what we need. He knows that Presence is what heals, not answers.

Love Came Down (Advent: Christmas Day)

December 25, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

Humble and human, willing to bend You are Fashioned of flesh and the fire of life, You are Not too proud to wear our skin to know this weary world we’re in Humble, humble Jesus Humble in sorrow, You gladly carried Your cross Never refusing Your life to the weakest of us Not too proud […]

Adding to the Noise

November 20, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

This world is hard to be in. It is so messy and broken. But there is good in all of us. ALL of us.

When it is Easier to Believe the Lie

May 23, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

I forgot to take out loans for my summer class. All of a sudden I found myself last minute signing up for a payment plan that I don’t exactly have the money for. All because I forgot a deadline. And the lies came rushing in. I found myself (or someone) speaking things to my soul […]

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