in a few weeks i’ll have no choice. zero. zilch. no choice. i’ll have to slow down because my uterus and surrounding area will have experienced a stressful time called myomectomy. it’s a surgical procedure during which fibroids are removed. fibroids are typically, non-cancerous tumors that grow in a space that’s got enough access to […]
Don’t Come Down!
I try to use exclamation marks sparingly. So listen up. I’m not sure when I first heard or read the Nehemiah 6 passage but I do remember being struck by it. Struck, not in a, “Yeah, that’s right, Nehemiah, I’m doing a great thing, too!” kind of way but in a, “Wow. I want to […]
5 Reasons Your Introverted Pastor Does NOT Hate You
This post is adapted from this post. It’s so freeing for me to read. I encourage you to read it too… Does your pastor seem to: – think more than talk – have no backbone regarding conflict – avoid you – only share personal information with a select few – prefer writing over talking – […]
A Letter
At a periodic gathering that I’m part of, one of our latest activities was to write a letter to ourselves, stating what we’d like God to do in our lives. The facilitator for that activity, took our self-addressed envelopes, stamped them, and mailed them to us several days later. Mine came in the mail a […]
Now What?
So Sex Week ended yesterday…(I’m actually writing this on Friday so that I don’t have to think about it tomorrow…not because sex is bad to think about on Saturday but because this practice of blogging every day of the week has been exhausting and that’s not how I wish to spend Sabbath.) The other day […]
courage
what story do i want to tell? every decision i make tells a story. i knew i needed to leave, so i left i knew i needed to stay, so i stayed i knew i needed to ask for help, so i asked for help i knew i needed to submit to the authorities even […]
reflections
[everything in brackets can be skipped over for a more fluid reading experience.]it started out as a grand idea: I’ll go to a retreat center for 24 hours!it became a simple and beautiful reality after not making the time to reserve a spot at a retreat center and achieving desperation the night before my scheduled retreat day. […]