Excerpts from meditations on psalm 130: Four months ago, after brunching with friends old and new and opening up, perhaps for the first time, about what I was going through physically (I had just been to the ER a few days before), I went to church. Church in this season has been a safe place. […]
this is what He meant.
“what you spoke is now unfolding” —elevation worship, Fullness Will you believe that of this season? That was his question to me, driving to work this morning, singing and eyes flooding with tears, yet somehow (miraculously) not streaming and blinding me. Will you believe it? I Voxered a friend later in the day and almost […]
this small forever
It’s been 9 months since I last entered this space, 9 months since I released words out into the world. And I’m not quite sure where to begin again, but my word for the year is “release,” so I think that includes writing something that makes it past margin-scribbles, notes, and journal-pages. 6 of those […]
Remaining Uprooted
I didn’t expect it to hurt this much: the leaving. the last-time-to-see this or that person. the last drives on intolerably bumpy roads that I’ve taken anyway. the last glimpses of once-green fields beginning to brown under the summer sun. I’ve been watching these fields for years now, through the sowing and growing and flooding […]
Return
To the one who stayed, and now must return, dear friend, dear self, You didn’t want to stay. Everything within you was ready to go. You were ready. Everything but your bags was packed: your heart, your calling, your identity—stowed away in the treasure boxes you found them in at first. Reburied like sand shuffled […]
Memories {link-up at velvet ashes: the grove}
What echoes have you heard in the silence? This is the question the Velvet Ashes’ Grove’s blog post begins with this week: pretty words dancing over a picture, to invite me into a still space, a sweet space with God again, like I had this weekend during a day-long retreat. But I find myself resisting; I […]