On Teachers, Dreams and Birthdays
“I stand convinced that her invitation to write served not as punishment, rather I’d call it a moment of divine intervention for my eight year old self”. These days I chase a dream that for a while, I...
View ArticleHeros And Monsters
“He says that this world is part heaven and part hell, and that every second, inside of me and out, I’m standing at the convergence of the two, at the corner of damned and divine.” Josh James Riebock,...
View ArticleAntipodean ~A Guest Post
I’m pressing pause here for the month of June. The past three weeks have been filled with beautiful, encouraging guest posts by some of my blogging friends. Today’s words come from “down under”, from...
View ArticleHere
Around here, on Friday’s we like to let our hair down just a bit. We write for just five minutes without stressing over our words and we publish it. No second guessing, no fretting. Lisa-Jo picks the...
View ArticleOn Growing Up
My 17th birthday is the last time I remember having my two closest friends at the time, together with me. We’d been growing steadily apart in the months leading up to that summer. They chased boys and...
View ArticleHit And Run
They’d been begging me to go all summer. And the truth is, I love this place as much as they do, but it can be dangerous and I tend to fret about them the whole time. Because it’s open to the public,...
View ArticleWide Enough
Happy Friday, my friends. The week is wrapping up, and hopefuly, sweet rest awaits you this weekend, or adventure, or a little of both? But before all that, lets just write, five short minutes, to...
View ArticleOne Word for 2013
For the last two years I have participated in the whole “one word” idea. In 2011, my word was obedience–and what a year that was.For 2012, my word was Trust. Both times I prayed about my word and God...
View ArticleCircling The Savior
Some Christians are for living on Christ, but are not so anxious to live for Christ. Earth should be a preparation for heaven. — C.H. Spurgeon Our days inhale and exhale the best and worst of us. Some...
View ArticleLoneliness In Leadership
After Refine {the retreat}, I came home thinking a lot about leadership, and what it looks and feels like. I feel very new to it, and have so much still to learn, and a wealth of growing to do. As I...
View ArticleBeing Grown Up And Turning 40
This summer marks the 40thyear of my life. This is the season when I am “over the hill”—the half-way point of my journey. I haven’t decided how I feel about it. Should I feel a certain way? What’s the...
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