When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I…
Aside from the soul-filling conversations and pages of scribbled notes to ponder, I also walked away from the IF:Gathering with some bright, beautiful and socially conscious jewelry that I wanted to tell you about. I’ve been a fan of Noonday Collection for years, and even considered being an ambassador at one point (ultimately deciding that I couldn’t commit the time and effort to do it the right way), so when…
I went to take photos of a friend’s house yesterday so they can put it on the market. While getting ready to shoot the bedroom, little Gavin climbed up on the bed. As he jumped up and down, shouted “TOUCHDOWN!” and grinned from ear to ear, I couldn’t help doing an impromptu photo session. Man he’s cute. See more of my photography HERE.
It’s easy to become cynical and jaded when leaders and celebrities disappoint us time and time again. When your spiritual leader is leading a double life of lies and affairs. When your favorite celebrity turns out to be a jerk behind closed doors. When every time the curtain is pulled back, reality is not what you thought it was. And so I think the joy of finding reality to be…
A few days ago I wrote about my hopes for the IF:Gathering. While I didn’t know what to expect as far as schedule, content, or anything else really, I had high hopes for the purpose of this gathering. I sit here tonight with mascara-stained cheeks inspired, humbled, challenged, filled up, and happily wiped out. I was looking for messy authenticity, and all around the music hall I found it. Women…
I’m traveling to Austin tomorrow for something called the IF:Gathering. A generation of women gathering together to ask the question, “If God is real, then what?” There has been something stirring in me for a few years now, and it all revolves around that important question. To be honest, I’m tired of comfortable Christianity. I’m frustrated with how my faith is portrayed in this social media let’s-all-blast-each-other-on-Facebook culture. I’m done…
I wasn’t quite sure how to start this blog post. I mean, how do you talk about something so huge, so horrible, so important? And then I took Leila to school and it hit me. She is only free to walk to school without the threat of violence because she was born in a country with a functioning justice system. Billions around the world do not have that freedom. Billions.…