I bought this cute block décor, but realize that its flowery words actually irk me. “Bloom where you are planted” is meant to conjure a visual reminder to flourish within our present season and circumstance, without comparing or competing or striving for what we don’t …
I didn’t want the new year to come. Everyone seemed to be ready for a fresh start, or minimally to put a little more distance between us and that blight of our existence, the year 2020. In fact, when Betty White passed just shy of …
As ownership of individual pronouns becomes normative, the idea of gendered language has become more intriguing to me. I ran into this unexpected article by CBE titled A Non-Gendered or Gender-Inclusive Faith: Lessons from Finnish and German. I was floored by the unexpected ramifications of …
There’s a lot of loneliness going around right now. The physical isolation makes us feel distant, and the distance breeds insecurity. We are not only dealing with the question of “Who is still in my pack right now?” but also “Am I still seen? Am …
I’m starting to think that most of the decisions I’ve agonized over this year could just as well have been decided by flipping a damn coin. It’s all very Robert Frost, road less traveled, psychological torment. We are months into homeschooling our kids, and there …
Does anyone else feel like they are looping through the Covid version of the stages of grief? When it first started, I was in denial. I naively believed that at the other end of that three-month long quarantine rainbow, I’d be able to return to …
I’m noticing a disturbing trend as I allow God to dismantle and rearrange the Christianity I grew up with. I was talking with friends last night- the cumulative venting of parenting, faith and our current versions of isolation. My friend and I lamented that as …
At thirty-three years old, I feel like I’m “unlearning” as much as I’m learning. It’s no secret that I live and breathe in the gray- I’m repelled by answers that leave no margin for questions, exceptions, or error. Social media overwhelms me with its sea …
I’m starting to pay attention to my “Christian triggers”- those moments when a phrase, or ism, or t-shirt from that ever-vague “Christian culture” catches on my soul like rough wood, leaving a splinter I can’t ignore. Yesterday I had such a trigger moment, listening to …
In light of feedback from my last blog post, I feel the need to explore the idea of people pleasing and dreaming in more depth. Often when we think of the people in our lives that put limits on us and our dreams, we imagine …