All my life you have been faithful. This statement. This song. It gets me every time because it is so true. And there is such a strong connection to all the beauty and the pain that is acknowledged in those words. In that confession, cry, and praise. But I will keep it light. I woke up early with a headache, […]
You asked me to do yoga again today. I never like to do it, except that you ask. So I do. And I think about how you and your siblings have always made me stretch, learning to maneuver in unfamiliar poses. You used to push into our room in the night to squish beside me. For a time, you couldn’t […]
I smile and ugly cry because he is having a family reunion and we are disjointed and left with a gaping wound.
We love Christmas movies because their fictional narratives connect to the truth of advent. They speak of hope, peace, joy, and love. As a people, we keep creating, watching, and re-watching these stories because the original Christmas story is imprinted on our hearts. The true story of Christmas is the story of Jesus coming to earth. It is God with […]
The other morning I sat on the balcony of our Airbnb rental drinking coffee with an insane amount of cream and sugar, sopping up the orangest of egg yolks with my very American bagel, and taking in the red roofs of a still sleepy city. Suddenly, the stressors of the past year and a half came to mind in a […]
At the end of it all, I found a common thread: I am uneasy, sad, worried, etc. because life is forcing me to acknowledge, once again, how little control I actually have. All the small things have converged in a great conspiracy to teach me yet another lesson on surrender.
We often pray because we desperately want something to change. We pray the suffocating marriage in which each person feels desperately alone will change. We pray the diagnosis, the weather, our awful bosses, or our finances will change.
We know prayer changes things, so we pray and we pray. We just don’t know when, why, or how the change will take place.
Everybody loves a makeover story because we love to see the change from a broken down house or poorly coiffed individual into a home with curb appeal and a person glowing with confidence. What we don’t enjoy nearly as much is the process. Or maybe I’m just talking about how I feel and assuming others feel the same. I never […]