Sabbath Week
Inhale. Exhale. Sabbath is the gift of space God has given us to pause and breathe. Our bodies find rest, and our souls do too. This coming week, we, the Velvet Ashes community, are going to do just that—rest. Our writers, social media teams, and network around the globe will be still. No posts will […]
Receipts
We are currently back in our passport country for the summer after some of the most difficult months of my life. We have faced personal, life-changing challenges, unrest in our host country, and exhaustion from it all. I wrote about how God called us to our current host country after years of service in another […]
Work Done in the Shadows
“Tell me three success stories from your ministry,” she said. I don’t remember what stories I shared as I balanced answering the question, helping my kids make hot chocolate from the church’s coffee bar, and printing off their name tags for children’s church and nursery. Of course there are success stories, but as I stood […]
This Month’s Theme: The Return
After the cost has been named and the weight of it has settled into our bones, after we’ve traced the quiet toll of this life, a question rises. What now? Not in a problem-solving way or with a “make it worth it” kind of urgency. But in the way a tired soul wonders where to […]