The thing is, love is just so big and wide and deep. Love was there in the silence as nothingness swirled in the mist and love was the first word spoken over it all and love is the banner over us and love never left and love is what came down to show us what love looks like with flesh on. Love … [Read more...] about hey girls? love is big enough.
faith
dear 2017: a resolution for restoration
2017, please, have mercy on us. 2017, please, be kind. See, we’re still a little tender from the previous three-hundred-and-sixty-five days. See, our last go-round did some damage on our hearts, so you must understand, we have some scars that might require extra tending to. I think it was … [Read more...] about dear 2017: a resolution for restoration
if your advent aches
When I’m being honest, I don’t know how to do this. The lights hang outside and the star sits atop the tree and childlike wonder dances through our very house and we talk about the birth of peace itself yet I still just can’t even. It’s too much, as Ellie says when I ask her to clean up. It’s … [Read more...] about if your advent aches
a prayer for when gratitude is hard
It seems fitting, somehow, that as the earth tilts on its axis and turns the way it does and our days become shorter and the nights become longer that the dark seems to be casting its shadow far past our street corners and sidewalks. It seems that as the year inches forward, our days have literally … [Read more...] about a prayer for when gratitude is hard
finding hope in the hard
I sit on the front porch, relishing the North Carolina green that surrounds me, magnolia trees beginning to show off with blooms up and down, the morning air still crisp from a rain the night before. The girls are noisy rowdy in front of me, wrestling over sidewalk chalk, lost within a world of … [Read more...] about finding hope in the hard
when you feel betrayed by your body
She walks up to me one morning, tears in her eyes, shaky, lip quivering. “Baby girl,” I say. “Come here. What’s going on?” I gather her up on my lap, her legs and arms and body too big for this anymore, but I hold her tight. “Mama?” Deep breath. “I’m sad and worried that Mae is going to … [Read more...] about when you feel betrayed by your body