06 Feb Can I remove my “Christian” label, please?
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.” {Elizabeth Gilbert}~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I really like me and I'm proud of who I am," a thought I never imagined having skipped through...
At the beginning of last year I joined a new small group. It was the first time I had shared my testimony in a while and as I told my story I said something along the lines of this: "If I had to choose one word...
I haven't written in two weeks. I have sat down many times to do so...
When I was a kid, growing up in church, I heard a lot about right and wrong. The whole stereotype message of the Baptist preacher "hell fire and brimstone." Yeah, I was buried deep in that. I remember when I was eight and realized I...
I keep fighting the urge to apologize for how dreary my blog posts have been lately, but then I remind myself you come here freely and then I feel less guilty about the genuine out pour of my sad heart. Do not be mislead though...
The other night I posted a picture of my tear-stained face on Instagram. (Ok...
A friend sent me an excerpt from Naomi Zacharias's book, "The Scent of Water," a few days ago. In it she discusses the reality of fairy tales and how we are so quick to focus on the happy ending that we miss the struggle the protagonists...
In 6th grade, Tony Moore called me fat. I was a good two feet taller than him with hips as wide as his shoulders. I was an inch away from being the same height I am today -- a good 5'8''. Average for a young adult...
"So bear with people that their unpleasantness and maliciousness and cruelty will never drive us to bitterness, that their unteachableness will never drive us to despair, that their folly will never drive us to irritation and that their unloveliness will never alter our love."*The world...