I looked out my window yesterday and I felt as though I had been given permission to breathe. I didn’t know I had been waiting for it. That is the alive part, the breathing, physically, spiritually – all of it. ♥ I let something go yesterday, one thing I’ve been trying and trying and trying [...]

I feel a little frozen lately. I’ve been putting off decisions and pushing off work because I’ve been waiting on a few projects. The wait is making me question decisions I’ve made, offering opportunities for new choices, leaving me less certain of the direction I’ve been going. Every time I’ve come through one of these [...]

yesterday, something changed. something woke up in me that had been dreaming, something indefinable suddenly defined itself and i woke up to my here and didn’t quite know where i’d landed. someone offered an idea that i’d left behind, and i went quiet with the remembering. i worked on the same image all day, cleaned [...]

My husband met me in February, 2004. I don’t remember meeting him, not his face, not his voice, not anything but his presence, sitting quiet behind my friend at a table in a darkened corner of the dining hall. I had come in looking for her, looking for something – I can’t remember now what [...]

I’ve been making mental notes lately, about things I never thought I’d think about, and things I’ve learned in the middle of the crazy we’ve been rushing around in for a while. I thought I’d share. Just because it is random and I am feeling random and not-so-poetic today in my Messy Office Which Must [...]

The breaking happened on a Thursday in mid-October, 2002. I don’t remember dates, so the fact that I know this stuns me. A week before, I had spent hours on my knees, praying over a meeting between my first love and my best friend. He’d stopped talking to her when he’d stopped talking to me. [...]

He says if I seek Him, I will find Him, even in a world where everyone turns from Him, where our good is worthless to Him. When the world is too much and too much in me, when God is a bandwagon and all I know is that Jesus is my righteous, He says He [...]