Life, Laughter, Love...and Shiny Objects
I am scared. To write. Even though it is the very thing that gives me life and makes me breathe deeper breaths. It centers me. It grounds me.
Unraveling can happen. Layers peeled back. Writing is like watering. It gives life and opens me up like a flower’s bloom, which has closed upon itself when rooted in dry and barren soil. And although the revealing is the place I am most comfortable residing, it is also the place that strips me of my armor and leaves me standing there, naked.
The ocean has always been a place of renewal for me. A place to center my mind and heart. A place where I can take all that is weighing me down, and let that shit go. I was looking forward to doing just that while watching the rhythmic dance of the ocean. In with the good, out with the bad.
When things get hard, it’s what we do. Right? We run. When things hurt too much, we run. When we are afraid, we run. When we listen to the voices in our heads that tell us we aren’t enough, we run. When our hearts are broken, we run. When someone […]
“Holy Spirit You are welcome here, Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere. Your glory God is what our hearts long for, To be overcome by Your presence, Lord.” If I wouldn’t have been driving, this song would have brought me to my knees today. But the tears were flowing anyway. Another day, […]
Donald Miller describes life turns as those moments in which your life is never the same. Those moments in which you walk through a door you can never walk back through again. They can be a result of someone you met, a place you traveled, something that happened. And regardless of the instigator, this life […]
Progress. The older I get, the more I realize not only how imperative it is, but also which kinds of progress are truly the most meaningful. It isn’t the progression of collecting things that matter. It isn’t the progression of measuring up to the people around you (at work, in the neighborhood, at the gym). It isn’t […]
Sometimes we have to cannonball into the deep end of pain to get through it. Trauma therapy, that’s what it feels like for me. It feels like I stood on the end of the pool, toes curling around the edge of the wall, alternately looking into the depths of water which are over my head and […]
You guys. Storyline. Such goodness was shared. So let’s get right to it… Life Lessons – Part Two: Pain is universal in a fallen world. It is not special to us. What we DO with it is special. We cannot overlook our own pain in life. Instead we should ask, what blessings can pain produce? How […]
Our pain? It isn’t unique. So all of us still standing with our feet firmly planted at the intersection of ‘Woe is me’ and ‘Victim’, are missing out on the beauty and gift of it all. Our pain, once we have a bit of distance from it, can be an incredible jump start to a […]
