God and I have this funny thing. Some outsider looking in would probably call it faith- a strong faith even. But I just call it friendship. What a friend I have in Jesus. And what God told me for 2023 was Chosen. I didn’t want this one. I hated it from the minute I heard it. I wanted to return […]
Advent
Eve
I get it. I understand why Eve did what she did. “And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 A command […]
Advent
Light
I haven’t done this in a while. I have file after file after file of unfinished, unsaved, and not ready to publish reflections on life. That’s what these are. In the past, I’ve set aside time to write for advent. To stop and pause and intentionally reflect during the season where the world prepares for the best present we never […]
2023
I’m Sorry Meg
There’s this thing in therapy that I do where I talk to myself. I talk to my child self. The little girl with the brightest smile and the cutest dimples- the one all the teachers loved. I talk to my teenage self who was very, very lost and confused; she lived with a gray cloud over her life. And sometimes […]
2023
I Didn’t Know I Could Love This
Of course I talked about Bar Method. I talked about, you know, “oh my gosh, how wild, I taught a class!” “what a feeling!” “who would have thought I would do this?” All the things expected. But the big thought-provoking thing within that reflection was, “wow I discovered something at the age of 28 that I did not think I […]