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I have been happier in the past few days than I have been in a long time. And by a long time, I mean almost three years. These years have been steeped in darkness and anxiety, looking everywhere for safety and rest. And at last, after a long, difficult journey, I have found it in…

Today I stood outside St. Edwards Church here in Nashville, and I looked at a tree. The bark was peeling, a sight that was sad and beautiful at the same time. Sad because the tree was losing its covering and protection; beautiful because now I could come up and put my hand on the bare…

When I was in high school I competed in the annual statewide music competition. In this competition soloists and small groups would prepare a piece and perform for judges and a small audience and be scored based on an objective scale. No one was ranked, but everyone wanted to perform well, and it was a…

“Jesus wept.” John 11:35, NAB This scripture came into my mind on a particularly rough morning earlier this week. I had been struggling with some ruminating thoughts and beating myself up and it was only 10 am and I was weary. As the week’s gone on I have continued to come back to this scripture,…

I’ve been spending the past two days in the Gospel of John, reading the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes (John 6:1-15). There’s a particular set of verses that capture my attention this time: “Jesus said, ‘Have the people recline.’Now there was a great deal of grass in that place.So the men…

In my last post, I started talking about the dreams the Lord is putting on my heart. I’m excited about those dreams. I’m excited at the growing desire to share my story with others, to openly and honestly bare my heart so that they may know that there is hope. I’m excited about the opportunities…

I don’t have a plan for my life right now. I don’t like that I don’t have a plan but here I am, plan-less. Anyone who knows me well certainly knows that this is not my normal state. I am an A+ type A that normally has the primary plan, an alternative primary plan, and…

On Saturday February 20, I read the Gospel of John, meditating on Jesus’s cure of the man at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-9). Little did I know how important this meditation would be when, a few hours later, my boyfriend broke up with me. If this had happened to me a year ago (heck,…