Tomorrow. Tomorrow marks one year since the travel day to end all travel days: the day I began my journey back to this place, wide-eye & expectant, swallowing fast the tears that came in greater waves than I imagined they would, on that first flight to Newark and then again as I watched Inside Out […]
I am a writer (excerpts).
I wrote over 10,000 words (not including journaling) while traveling last week, and I officially can no longer shake the shocking thought: I want to be a writer. More shocking, the next thought slides up in line: I am a writer. And, so, here are some of those words that I wrote last week, an […]
when you’re not [a little] brave
A few weeks ago, I posted a story. A story of walls falling and hearts opening and truth being shared and let into some really dark places. I found myself a little brave, and wanted others to take the risk too. So, I wrote. But I need you to know that, more often than I want, […]
be a little brave.
I wasn’t even looking to be brave. I wasn’t expecting a conversation, fresh off of four days of not leaving my apartment with a bad cold. I was expecting a quick jaunt to the xerox, to make copies, then to my old apartment to get a few things, then back to my new apartment to […]
And we are these orphans
“In You the orphan finds mercy.” [Hosea 14.3] And we are these orphans, forsaken by the false fathers we crafted, in need of the mercy You alone can give. We are these orphans, who flee Your pursuit, the one who alone can save & secure us again. We are these orphans, desperate and dying of […]
a glorious unsettling.
I never thought it would feel like an exile, this place I called home from day one. I never expected that word to arise in ashes, beauty slayed by disappointment and dashed expectations. Tears that overflowed in joy as we descended months ago ran down in fear with the second descent. The unknowns pile up, […]