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February 2020

February 04, 2020

Man Of Sorrows, My Comforter

I am a wisp of a girl, all baby fine hair and plastic barrettes that...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Weakness At Its Most Wondrous: Strength

 My first book, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack,  comes out in two...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

To Feel Again: The Tedium of Surviving

More than anything, surviving is tedious. It is a million small breaths strung together. It...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

Living In The Tension of Beauty and Pain

I’ve been mostly absent from social media for the past week. There are seasons where...

December 13, 2018

Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit For They Will Lead the Way

Advent is here. We are straining forward each day with anticipation. But still, this season...

December 06, 2018

Grieving Our Celebrations

  I grieve every Christmas. I miss my dad the most this time of year....

November 2018

November 30, 2018

Maybe Someday: On Deserts and Dreams Deferred

Every year when the sun climbs into the horizon and sets over the Sangre de...

November 19, 2018

Bipolar Is A Riptide: Breathing Lessons

I’ve written before that ~I write like a woman drowning. I write with a desperation...

November 16, 2018

For Better or for Worse, Till Death Do Us Part: A Warbler’s Hope

On my 20th anniversary, last May, I do what I did the day before, and...

November 01, 2018

Bear Witness: You Have Seen God

My word of the day app keeps opening to the word fenestrated. I look up...

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