the well
Last week I relapsed after being under the weather already for a full week. On the night I finally started to feel like myself again, my brain went into hyperdrive and I lay awake until midnight. I...
View Articlethe stream
So I kept thinking about this idea of drinking deeply from the living water and all the reasons I do not – we do not. All the reasons we keep going back to our own little wells and hoping to drink...
View Articlea few good reads
I thought it might be nice to share something lighter (mostly) than all of my OH MY GOSH, I JUST HAVE TO ENDURE LIFE RIGHT NOW posts. Because while that is true, it is also true that there are days...
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“[Some mortals] say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.” – C.S. Lewis,...
View Articlerejoice & take courage
This week I picked up a new book – Roots & Sky, by Christie Purifoy. It is like a deep breath in this seemingly never-ending winter. In the last few weeks, I have confronted the idea that part of...
View Articleenduring and enduring
In the spring, I can toy with my northern friends, sending them pictures of us splashing at the lake and taking long walks, while they wait for their yards to defrost and deslush. In the fall, my...
View Articlea prayer and confession over morning coffee
To the Godhead, present and perfect and infinitely knowing, be Thou my close comfort today. I enter my days wrestling; morning comes and my mind is vulnerable to thoughts of impulsivity, of...
View Articlenot i, but christ | taking a larger view of Christ in me, the hope of glory
At the beginning of the month, I had the lovely privilege of teaching at my church’s monthly women’s gathering. I hemmed and hawed (in my own brain) for awhile before accepting this invitation…and then...
View Articleon chronic uncertainty and the pursuit of God
I. For over two years now I have been listening to Andrew Peterson’s “The Burning Edge of Dawn” album. To me it is the sound of autumn and longing and hope. When it released in 2015, I was filled with...
View Articlehopes for spring
My words have been so weighty lately – maybe the winter, maybe the sickness that never ends, maybe the time to ruminate. It’s very much needed, given that writing helps me to work out my salvation...
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