where my heart and His Story collide
So today, the big guy and I celebrate 24 years of marriage 👩‍❤️‍👨 Yay us! Now, it's true I make a decent deal of my wedding anniversary every year. It's definitely got much to do with the way we started out and how we should’ve never lasted. (But, God!) But it’s also because, as time… Continue reading Anniversaries and The Only Peace
(This is the final post of three in a series titled "My Story". If you're curious, here's one and two.) So, my last post ended with me figuring out that after fifteen years of living my life in Jesus, I only really loved Him like I'd loved my family and friends... a whole heck of… Continue reading My Story – Through Him
(This is the second post in a series of three. Feel free to catch up here.) So last post we left off with me in college, stewing in the swirling piles of wreckage and shame I'd caused, yet also covered over quite (in)sufficiently with my masks and plenty of anger... Messy, Wrecked, and Puzzled Shortly… Continue reading My Story – In Him
A preface… Since this is a blog about where my heart and God’s story collide, what could be a better backdrop than my own background, including original and subsequent collisions? It’s probably overdo. That said, these next few posts are kinda winding and long because, by nature, life stories cover whole lives. Or, lives up… Continue reading My Story – Before Him
Be Thou my vision when blind is my sight. Be Thou a lamp when dark is the night. Be Thou my companion when I feel all alone. Be Thou my hope when I have not my own. Be Thou, Lord, an anchor. Be Thou, God, my strength. Be Thou, Friend, my treasure in the dreariest… Continue reading Be Thou (My vision for 2020 and beyond)
A look back five whole years ago now... College Move-in Day is nearly upon us. The day I leave a part of myself to begin the best parts of himself. And, by now, it may be clear there’s been a small struggle, which makes me wonder and ponder and ask, “Why?” Which always makes me think… Continue reading A Love Story: From College and Beyond
(Note: This is a little something I wrote for my lovely, self-appointed/adopted niece, then shared at her baby shower this past summer. She is a dream and now also a Momma and I love her and her entire family dearly.) For the Rest of What Comes Next… I remember the first time I saw you,… Continue reading Dear Momma-To-Be
are You in my days? in my nights? after the words don't come out right? are You in the morning? in the rain? in the sun light peeking through the pane? are You in the thought that just swept me over? the overwhelm? the overwhelming pain? are You in that moment I dread today? the… Continue reading are You in my days
That's Just Ugly I wanna start by saying that in no way do I believe my words are needed at this moment in time. It's just that when you write your feelings, it's next to impossible to process all that's currently going on without at least trying to write something down. Anything, really. So, maybe… Continue reading The Ugly in Life and Death
