Category Archives: writings
sarah’s laughter.
and sarah declared, “God has brought me laughter. all who hear about this will laugh with me. who would have said to abraham that sarah would nurse a baby? yet i have given abraham a son in his old age! // … Continue reading
these three remain.
on the days when it looks and feels as if everything else has abandoned us – reason, success, security-, these three remain: faith, hope, and love. they’re pretty words, these capstones of a passage of scripture that is read at almost every … Continue reading
Filed under authentic faith, hope, love, wrecked.org, writings
comforting without talking.
i’m published. :0 okay, so i don’t have a new york times bestseller on the shelves just yet, but yours truly does have an article featured on the front page of relevant magazine’s website today! remember my blog post from … Continue reading
Filed under grief, publications, silence, writings
hallelujah.
i’ve been thinking a ton about the ability to rejoice, regardless of circumstances. it’s a sign of spiritual maturity, it’s an indicator of where one’s trust truly lies. and it’s hard. this past sunday morning at church, it was genuinely … Continue reading
Filed under authentic faith, switch, writings
summers’ thirsty acres.
we would usually hit up the akers’ in-n-out convenience store first thing as we pulled into the tiny town of dougherty. it’s where i was first introduced to moonpies and the stars on tootsie pop wrappers. we’d weave through town … Continue reading
Filed under country life, family, favorite things, writings
streams in the wasteland.
forget the former things; do not dwell in the past. see, I am doing a new thing! now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. // … Continue reading
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just one.
several of y’all have selected one word to meditate on - a term which will influence your everyday actions and the not-so-simple ones alike, a thought or goal to strive toward - in the first year of this brand new decade. i’ve combed through blog posts and tweets … Continue reading
joy and the unknown.
as an almost twenty-one year old, there’s one colossal question that i’m asked without fail by anyone i’ve just been introduced to, or by people from my hometown who are curious as to what my expensive education at obu is going to produce: … Continue reading
someday.
it is hard to believe how quickly a year can pass, how four seasons can complete their cycle in what seems like a flash. it has been a year since brady passed away, a precious little boy who words cannot … Continue reading
Filed under anger, authentic faith, grief, love, photographs, prayer, quotes, scripture, writings
anger, plain and simple.
this will probably be the most difficult entry i’ve written thus far.i cried, and sobbed, and sniffled my way through this ten minute segment of oprah last night. it was late, i had just gotten out of the shower, and … Continue reading
