She stood there, cautiously baring her heart to me. Her words said to me that she thought I had it together. She thinks I know what the heck I’m doing every day when I wake up and all the things from near and far are calling my name. Instantly my mind went back to aContinue reading “Behind the Picket Fence”
Tag Archives: Being Real
That Time We Moved to Mexico
I love to write. It’s something God has gifted me with and I love to use it to share what He’s doing in and through His Body in the jungle. I’m passionate about it. But something I’ve noticed in this social-media-saturated culture is that people are overwhelmed by media. Pictures, articles, words. They are allContinue reading “That Time We Moved to Mexico”
Five Minute Friday: Messy
Time flies and it\’s Five Minute Friday again. When we writers join up for five minutes of unplanned, messy writing. That\’s today\’s prompt: messy. This serving Jesus thing is messy. I wake up to my selfishness every morning as I climb out of bed, tip-toeing ever so quietly so as not to wake my sleepingContinue reading “Five Minute Friday: Messy”
On Being Real
People like real people, but not many people like to be real. I know. It\’s deep. But why is that?! I have a theory and it goes a little something like this: 1. It scares us to be real.It not only scares us when other people are real, it scares us when we start toContinue reading “On Being Real”
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