“Grace transforms our failings full of dread into abundant, endless comfort … our failings full of shame into a noble, glorious rising … our dying full of sorrow into holy, blissful life. …. Just as our contrariness here on earth brings us pain, shame and sorrow, so grace brings us surpassing comfort, glory, and bliss...

i have realized that i don’t write to get answers, i write to become. to experience. to taste. to watch. to process. to look back in recognition of what god has done, often forgotten as i turn to begin a new page in my notebook. had these years of stories and thoughts not been recorded,...

this fight is so real. even though i believe it’s really all one giant collective dream we are participating in, the ‘realness’ couldn’t be any more tangible at times, so much so that i can all but grasp and taste it on my bittered lips. this morning has been a “where is god?” kind of...

i should be further along by now. in my career, in the making of my dreams a reality. with writing this book that i have been gifted all of the pieces of, but have to fully arrange them into finished work. almost 11 years of marriage and never in my wildest dreams would i have...

there has been an open tab on my computer now for over 9 months. it is an insightful podcast session that my husband Justin stumbled upon and passed my way, of which i had listened to the first 10 minutes months back when i first received this. Although what little of the chat i had...

absorbing the divine. infusion into the deepest of depths. into every cell, tissue, sinew and bone, pulsing through my veins. does this not sound like the most lovely marinade of all? to truly absorb God, making this the place where my heart flees to find refuge, away from myself and into the mighty covering and...

the ‘right timing’ cannot be UNTIL the time it happens. the right time IS the right time of it’s unfolding. it cannot be anything else. this i am coming to an understanding in. the clock of the most divine is most certainly not my linear time frame of how I would have things mapped out,...

Last month was a flare up with my health challenges. And I mean BAD. I’ve been going along at such a mildly steady but slow pace in the journey of my digestion healing and then this hit me right out of left field, completely leveling me. The duration was a few days this time around,...

This battle of continually letting go is a true hero’s journey, which will pass right over the weak or faint of heart, searching out only warriors that have given their life for the cause. In this case, my cause is freedom. From the voices in my head telling me things in my life circumstances I...

Rumi is known to have said, “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. There are a thousand ways to go home again.” There are a thousand things to be grateful for and a thousand ways to celebrate living- to welcome in the abundance of the harvest season. Bringing in ritual and...