“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”Isaiah 43:19 It has been over a year since I’ve written about a plant remedy in this space, and slowly but surely, I feel parts of me thawing enough to make that possible again soon. Much of what I’ve shared…
Surrendering the Search
Please don’t let it take over twenty addresses and decades of discontentment, running, starting over, and trying again in a new city, a new state, before you understand this: the process is the process, and it takes as long as it takes. For years, I believed I was a victim of my circumstances. But the…
Breaking Up with Pride
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from carrying bags you were never meant to keep. For most of my life, I carried pride — not the healthy kind, the quiet satisfaction of a life well-lived, but the kind that wraps itself around you like a boa constrictor and slowly, quietly, takes more…
Forgetting the Map
I Don’t Know How I Got Here (And I’m Learning to Be Okay With That) I could trace the steps, if you gave me enough time. Somewhere in the last 6,000 days, life took me everywhere it wanted to go — and I let it. I let my days be ruled by this person’s promise,…
Recognizing You’re Already Home
You’ve Crossed the Bridge, Dear There’s a particular kind of suffering we inflict on ourselves when we miss the moment we’ve arrived — when we keep pursuing solutions to problems we no longer have, crossing bridges we’ve already crossed simply because we once told ourselves we would. I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between…
Accepting The Invitation to Intimacy
You’ve shown me in this season that great is your faithfulness toward me. The Invitation Every evening, you set the table for two on our rooftop overlooking the city. Candlelight flickering against the skyline, wine poured and waiting, your love displayed in every detail. But I kept declining your invitations because I was too busy…
