A heartfelt reflection on faith, resilience, and community in the midst of life’s storms. Carrying the Weight: Finding Grace and Strength in Life’s Heavy Lifting explores how we can find light, connection, and hope even when life feels unbearably heavy.
Category: Faith
Run the Race Marked Out for You
A Poem on Hebrews 12:1 Life often feels like a race filled with distractions, comparisons, and burdens that slow us down. Hebrews 12:1 reminds believers to run with perseverance, fixing our eyes on God rather than the world around us. I wrote this poem to encourage you to release what weighs you down and embrace Read More
When Faith Feels Distant: Follow the Best Path
Starting My Mornings With Intention Lately, I’ve been starting my mornings with Scripture—a habit that’s been established, broken, and renewed at various points in my adult life. Over the past nine months, I’ve been working intentionally on building a meaningful morning routine. It’s included meditation, visualization, affirmations, reading, and journaling. But during this time, my Read More
Small Steps
Happy new year! I’ve noticed that a year has a cycle of its own: The hopeful, verdant productivity of spring; the hot, leisurely lull of summer; the nostalgic, fire-colored winding down of fall; the final determined frosty push of winter. After December, though winter has still some proving to do, we turn to a new Read More
Discomfort and Joy
Here in the thick of the holiday season, I’m feeling the confluence of discomfort and joy. I know it’s supposed to be comfort, right? “Let nothing you dismay…” Well, when you’re sober, you realize just how frequently the holidays present us with situations and circumstances that you’d rather drink away or through. When the old Read More
Does online connection count and other things introverts wonder about…
The verdict is in on connection and the general consensus is that it extends your life expectancy, increases your chances of staying sober in recovery and is necessary to thrive spiritually. Good stuff, unless you’re an introvert. Unless being around people wears you out instead of recharges you. I’ve written about my introverted nature before Read More
Weekend Book Review: Crossroads
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Edition Reviewed: Hardcover, 592 pages Published October 5th 2021 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux “It’s like there are these words, they’re out there in the world, and you start wondering what it would be like to say them. Words have their own Read More
Who’s in Control?
I come to you today, humbled, after having my grand plans for the month subdued by, you guessed it, Covid. My daughter came down with it the day after I declared my intention to awaken and join the world. Within days I found myself miserable and dormant. I am surprised at the extent to which Read More
September’s Word of the Month: Awaken
Washing dishes at the kitchen sink, mind wandering, my gaze falls on a healthy potted hydrangea offering up the last of its fading blooms. But this isn’t a sad sight; it’s amazing. I had long since given up on this plant, as the past few years all it could muster were a few leggy leaves Read More
Weekend Book Review: The Untethered Soul
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Author: Michael A. Singer Genre: Self-Help, Spirituality Page Length: 186 pages, auidiobook is 6 hours, 10 minutes Publisher/Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Oct. 3, 2007 “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the Read More