Category Heavenly Revelation

It just hadn’t been a good week.  Straight up.  I felt like I had been teetering back and forth between frustration that I couldn’t fully put into words and trying to hold it together. Oh, and it was showing.  I…

I pulled up to my new home at the farm here in Redding, CA March 1st. It is finally feeling like I am settled-almost a month later. I found a bed (I heart craigslist), new sheets and comforter, and have…

I almost forgot about Lent until my friend mentioned it while we were having lunch yesterday, as she mused out loud about what she was giving up.  Oh, crap, I said. Lent.  Ash Wednesday.  After running in these non traditional…

If grace wasn’t already a tricky enough concept in my life, it has taken on a whole new level of complexity since I have been here in Thailand.  When working with a broken population such as the people I come…

 I was jamming out to my ipod today as I took on the monumental task of organizing the work shelves at The Well.  Kim Walker’s album came on.  I love her music, mostly for the spontaneity of it.  Half of…

For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and tempest And the sound of the trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearer beg that not further messages be spoken…

Change. It seems to be everywhere. In the weather patterns ( I know I have been away for awhile, but summer is usually pretty much here by now, right? And my parent’s pool is still too cold to swim in..what’s…

read Confessions of a Recovering Scoffer, part 1 for the beginning of this tale. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into…

Dry, empty, tapped out, lethargic. This has been my spirit these last couple of weeks. Have you ever been in such need for something that you can’t even muster up the strength to desire it anymore? I knew it had…