This season. It’s abundant with waiting. And it’s teaching me a thing or two or ten. Waiting is teaching me to find the wonder and mystery in not knowing. In not being able to snap my fingers and create a pretty, perfectly styled Instagram-worthy image or weighty checklist. Waiting is teaching me to listen to the honest emotions springing to the …
Succumbing to Stillness
The very thing I want to do, I often don’t, and what I’m trying not to do, I do. And so enters grace. It’s a season of stillness. Of in-betweens. Call it the calm before the storm or existing in a white noise tunnel but I’m finding there are two options: run as fast as I can to avoid uncomfortable tension …
Remember
Working out / getting toned didn’t even make it on my 2016 New Year’s Dreams. So.over.it. Before 2015 becomes a distant memory I want to remember. I want to sit in God’s goodness, to look back and say, Yes, I see it now, even if I didn’t see it then. You are good. Your plans are better than mine. They …
Practicing Thankfulness in the Waiting
It seems we’re all waiting. Waiting to grow up. Waiting to hear about college applications. Waiting to move out. Some, waiting to fall in love. Others, waiting to fall back in love, feeling estranged to the spouse they share a bed with. Some are waiting for any love at all. Some are waiting, dancing back and forth on tiptoes to …
A Faith Journey: The Middle
This is the 4th of 6 essays in A Faith Journey as I re-trace the final week of my Dad’s life. Loss served as the catalyst to my faith, and it is through this story, I see God’s invitation to experience Him as the greatest story. For those that have walked this with me from the beginning, please read and remember and know …
Adventures at the Airport
We sit at Gate A23, only a brief layover until we are to board our flight from Phoenix, AZ to Charlotte, NC. Where is that boarding call? And suddenly, it’s, I think we are at the wrong gate and our flight is supposed to leave like.RIGHT.now! This is where you imagine me running, okay, crawl-sprinting, through the terminal, to the other side of the airport, where our …