Let’s Dream Together
We are long overdue for a community post! If this is your first Velvet Ashes Community post, here’s the gig: We’ll have a list of ten questions you can copy and paste into a comment—feel free to answer all ten questions or as many as you want! It’s fun to read through others’ responses and […]
The Humility To Dream
I am a dreamer who loves to dwell in possibility. Sometimes I dwell in possibiliti(es)… driving my poor here-and-now husband crazy. Dreams are almost as precious to me as my babies – conceived, nurtured, and brought to life. As I have been getting ready to move to a new country it seems that as a […]
More than Dreams
We stepped off of the plane into 100% humidity in the pitch black of Halloween night in West Africa. Nothing could have prepared us for the uncertainty of our first few weeks living in the dank upstairs room of the long term worker’s house. We wondered if we would ever make it to our intended […]
Dreaming in Reality
My family and I watched *almost* every second of March Madness this year, which was a treat because we hadn’t been able to take part in one of our favorite American “holiday seasons” in years! It’s great fun to try and pick winners and see who ends up advancing to each round. After one of […]
Birth
What beautiful reminders we’ve had this week of the anticipation and birth of the One who reconciles and makes Himself known to us. How telling that He didn’t just appear, but was carried in the womb of an ordinary woman chosen to birth Him. Every single one of us birth something. For some, it’s little […]