“Broken people, call His name.” It was a muggy Friday, summer evening. I could hear their collective voices, as my four wheels pull up slowly to the gravel parking lot. Double doors propped open. Because where He is, everyone should be welcomed. There was no “getting to know you” period. No recruitment, hand picking, or stringent, […]

She’s been telling me for weeks, about some little girl who is homeless. I didn’t listen. I was planning a wedding, single-handedly, caught up in my own send-off and all it means when you give a life away. She was five after all. And I just assumed someone at school was making this story up. Older […]

I see them dig today. Ebony skin glistening in the beaming sun. Shovels, unearthing everything deep and red. A little boy walks nearby, the look in their eyes is determined, fierce, purposed, unified…. And we all dig, sometimes. Some dig to build, others to plant. And then there are those that dig graves with words left […]

“I….I…” Trying to wrack my mind for words to explain our past season to my husband… “I feel like we’ve been through a blender.” Yes. That was it. Mentally, physically, emotionally, in relationships. Like a wirlwind had wrapped itself around our home and was spinning us towards sharp blades, destined to destroy us. Worse yet, we’ve […]

For three days, God was speaking, “You care too much about what people think.” When I told my twenty-two year old, she responded, “What? I don’t think you do.” But truth deep inside, rarely lies. And this theme had been striking me recently, through text messages, words I’d been reading. And then, there was that time, […]