“We can't save them from themselves.” The conversation carried on, but the words resounded, reverberated, and bounced off the walls of my heart for the foreseeable future. I was talking with a colleague about the work we do, about how we have a front row seat to...
last weekend i was in florida with a friend. one afternoon we were frolicking on the beach--and i do mean frolicking, it was perfection--when rain clouds began rolling in. we didn't want to go in yet; we were having too much fun. but then, not out of nowhere the bottom...
photosource You know what I am really tired of? Lies and liars. We sleep with lies. We tuck them in our purses. We stick them in our back pockets, fold them into the pages of our books. We nestle them under couch cushions and bind them around our...
I'm reading Beth Moore's So Long Insecurity, right now and last week came to a section where she has literally written out a prayerful meditation asking for release from insecurity. Her words penned inspired across the page. I was reading, praying, and claiming the words when I came to six little...
Trust. Trust according to Merriam Webster is, "a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, effective, etc." The other day a friend of mine posed the question: "How do you trust again? [After being hurt, damaged, bruised, beaten up, tortured, discarded, and broken by life and people...
There is a line in the movie Hitch...
I've been thinking about you guys all day long. I long for Thursday nights when I get to snuggle into my favorite chair with my laptop and pour out my heart to you, my friends. I was halfway through a love note about insecurity when for whatever...
You know how sometimes memories are ruined? There are good memories and bad memories. There are memories that you want to last forever, the ones you hang pictures of on the walls, the ones you try to recreate. Then there are memories that you try to...
Tonight is one of those pesky nights where I drive home with thoughts swirling in my head, half of a love note already written to you beautiful people, and then I get home and poof. My brain has already clocked out for the evening and...
