Sometimes (read: oftentimes) when I am doing yoga, I lose my balance. I slide off center and lean to one side, threatening to topple over entirely. What I have discovered is that when I jerk back, out of fear of falling, I almost always over...
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 are not welcome here. You no longer have space. Your space is being filled with self-love, grace for my story, and new hope for a beautiful future--which you have no part of. Goodbye." I read the words I had written nights before. A letter to...
“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too...
Why sometimes I wish that I wasn't labelled a "Christian" ...
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...
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...
Tomorrow is the celebration of an event that -- like so many others -- has been dwindled down to pastel colors, spring fever, colored eggs, furry, cute field animals, and the second (only to Halloween) highest candy selling holiday of the year. But it is truly...
