The sun is rising this morning after a week of dark. I know what it’s gonna reveal here – mostly brown and dead and leftover wet – but I seriously can’t wait for the light. I used to be spectacularly good at putting on an act, doing what I was supposed to do. Now, I’m [...]

I tell Piper that prayer isn’t anything hard – it’s just telling God about her day. I tell her that He likes it when she talks to Him. Every night I tell her that He loves her more than we ever could. I tell her these things because I believe them. Because they are simple [...]

They aren’t the things I think they are, the things that hold me back. I have been busy with portfolio-building sessions lately. In case you hadn’t noticed, I thought I would point that out. I have scheduled only two paying sessions from the reveals I have posted here, but the incoming queries about my work [...]

as the sun sets, i feel my tension grow; already i prepare myself for the subconscious night-worry, and the tide comes in, rolling shallow on the shore – more gently than I expected, and I am raw. my prayer has words tonight, and no one to hear, or no one to listen. at least, this [...]

I am journaling again. I don’t know what it is about me that I can’t keep my words inside, that I can’t make sense out of life and just hold things in my heart. I have to come out somewhere, say what I’m thinking to someone, think out loud, dialogue my brain things. I’ve gotten [...]

“I have (do not have) quiet spaces, openings in my day to let myself simply drift, so God can come alongside me. They look like (I wish they looked like)…” (L.L. Barkat, God in the Yard, p. 13) It is easy to be busy. To do the things I can do, and make noise in [...]

there is wild in the sky today wind cutting water – not rain – and then rain-soaked wind i cannot hold this feeling this rising fading rumble train passing on the other side light in dark and dark over light blue and black and green and purple restless passion thunder wakes me, breaks me, frees [...]