I am broken at your feet, poured out before you now I have nothing left to give so empty Yet this is where praise begins it fills the spaces between the shards of my shattered heart this is where worship comes and makes brokenness beautiful and penetrates the emptiest places in me She heard that […]
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, […]
This Christmas Day
Waking up every couple of hours to an echoing voice, billowing through the streets, in a language we cannot understand, with words not meant for our Father… This is not the ideal way to spend the hours between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Christmas morning came too early; the coffee wasn’t strong enough. My mug was […]
the music of God.
Encouragement. Over and over again, that word keeps replaying in my head, a melody needing a harmony. The Father is singing it as a song of deliverance all around me (psalm 32.7-8). Honestly, this season is a mixed bag. Joy hums her little tune into the tiniest details of life back in this place I […]
This is who you are.
Friday night, as I fell asleep, I was wandering through the laundry list of prayers that come up out of my physical fatigue and my weary mind, soul, and spirit. This week has been long. Friday took forever to arrive. There have been good moments, but also hard moments. There have been sweet times of fellowship […]
on persecution & stories
Here, I sit on a warm porch with a stilling breeze. I stare at the Himalayan foothills and hear birds and dogs and voices and infrastructure. I type these words because I need to, not because I want to. I don’t want to tell their stories; I want you to hear them as I heard […]