On Starting

He said, “I’ve been praying for you to find your voice.” He doesn’t know how I am threatened by the quiet, by the space that shows up each morning waiting for me to honor it. You have to trust the lump in your throat, the tightness in your rib cage, the hand in your stomach [...]

Would You Give Away Your Pain? (On Spiritual Direction)

He asks me if I would really do it? Give away all the pain if I could. And I sit silent and still. Waiting, trying to honor the question. Would I really give it away? When it’s quiet I can almost feel it, the deep sorrow curling slow and steady in my stomach’s bottom, up [...]

She Loves

I am doing something a little different today. I am pointing you to another blog because it is somewhere I have discovered that God is at work. Isn’t it our job to shine the spotlight on such places? I want to tell you about SheLoves online magazine. Founding editor, Idelette McVicker is doing wonderful things [...]