Honoring the Full Catastrophe
You know that feeling, where your head and heart don’t align. Where you know God is good, but… When all you’ve been told, all that you know to be true no longer seems to… work. For me, it feels like the clanging cymbals of life and faith in a messy, fallen world. Or, as a […]
Safe in the Arms of the Father
“Do you have a safe place?” she said. She being my therapist. As soon as the words came from her mouth, doubt and questioning rose up within me. “What is safe when your own home has been broken into?” “Isn’t safety just a feeling?” “Will the sense of safety ever return?” Though I understand the […]
Being in Tune
My sister recently hired someone to come and tune her piano. She proceeded to inform me she was unable to stay in the same room as the tuner brought the piano, one string after another, painfully into tune. I played violin for about 10 years. I am embarrassed to even type that, when the truth […]
A Walk in Discord
After a doctor’s appointment, some tests and a scary diagnosis entered my life in the last month, I find myself going back through Psalms verse by verse. The Psalms speak to me quietly with words of comfort that remind me I am not alone in my emotions, feelings or life struggles. The Psalms remind me […]