a second valentine’s day post. read the first one (from 2021) here. Her voice came through with words on a grainy video screen, so familiar, an echo through time and space, years after my own words ran dry with the same emotion. “I’m just tired of hoping,” my friend said, reflecting on her singleness and […]
What do you want from me?
“What do you want from me?” The question eeeks out of my brain quicker than I can stop it with better judgement. It’s not a harsh, angry tone—just a sense of exasperation as I sigh and mark an email unread, because I don’t know what to do with it today. I got a card this […]
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 […]
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 […]
How then shall we live?
reflections in Ezekiel 33-34. The last time the Lord called Ezekiel a watchman over the house of Israel was when He called him: when the Lord set him on his feet, set His Spirit in his bones, and said, “Speak what I say to you, no matter what they hear or refuse to hear.” He […]