Confession #1: I’m usually keeping two journals at once—but it should be three. (Never mind the notebooks and slips of paper and digital notes I take to record and organize my thoughts. Heaven help that lot!) The first journal is for life, and the second is a journal for spiritual life. The third one shouldContinueContinue reading “Why I Journal (And Why I Think Everyone Should Too)”
Category Archives: Life
Rebellious Hope
Jane Marczewski, in a tweet, once said, “Some people will call it ‘blind denial’ but I prefer to call it rebellious hope.”
This, said by a woman who had a 2% chance of overcoming cancer. Who had a million dreams to live for. Who inspired just as many people with her golden buzzer performance of her original song, “It’s Okay.”
Setting Off Toward Home
Three years ago to the day, I was carting a U-haul to Oklahoma, my would-be home. Not knowing a soul there, apart from the people I’d interviewed with at my new job, I remember setting off into the sunrise and being as excited as I was scared. Up until five weeks previous, when I wasContinueContinue reading “Setting Off Toward Home”
Hindsight: What I Now See
I discovered this post in my drafts, where it had lingered for three years. It helped me remember the creativity and goodness in God’s plans, so I’m sharing it in the hope that it will encourage someone else. I recently caught a view that took my breath away. It was on a hike (I stillContinueContinue reading “Hindsight: What I Now See”
Simply, Complexly Human
All of us, so simple… We eat, we sleep, we live. We work to live, and work takes our life. We breathe, we bleed, we try. All of us hurting… We feel, we hurt, we hide. We hide the pain and the pain hides us. We fake, we ache, we wonder why. All of usContinueContinue reading “Simply, Complexly Human”
Serving vs. Selling
So many thoughts rummaging around in my head these days, but one that has emerged in some state of cohesiveness to ponder with you all is about marketing. And yet it also isn’t. Let me explain. I was reading a fantastic article about marketing by author and writing coach K.M. Weiland recently. (Or, more accurately, IContinueContinue reading “Serving vs. Selling”
One More Day – A Poem
“Heart, where are you?” I said. But my voice came back hollow. “Surely you’re not dead… Don’t go where I can’t follow. “Dawn can’t stay always away, So turn your face to the sky. Hope can’t stay forever at bay, Awake; lift your head high.” Only silence from the depth, Just as still as before.ContinueContinue reading “One More Day – A Poem”
The Jonah Within
There are few Bible personalities I really connect with. You know: Ruth was so good, and Esther was fearless and beautiful, and Mary was amazing. Paul is hard for me to get my head around, and the disciples, well, they were interesting and funny, but relatable? Well, maybe not so much. But start talking about Jonah, andContinueContinue reading “The Jonah Within”
If Infinity Is the End
For one moment last month, I thought I was going to die. And now that you probably have a vision of me flipping a car or falling off a roof, I must admit it was nothing so dramatic. I was struggling to breathe, choking on a bite of food I’d hoped would give me theContinueContinue reading “If Infinity Is the End”
Embracing the Struggle
You know when you hear a morsel of truth and all you can do is slap the nearest desk and say, “Yes! YES!”? That recently happened to me when I ran across this quote by Madeleine L’Engle: “Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, withoutContinueContinue reading “Embracing the Struggle”
Meagan Briggs 