I’ve been slowly making my way through Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren. If you haven’t read it, the book is about how the small things we do everyday form us and how we can better show up to the presence of God at work within them...
God’s Laughter and Other Surprises
One of the most revolutionary discoveries of my life has been that God still speaks today. My life is different in so many ways, both big and small, because of very personal words that I believe God spoke to me. I don’t think I’m in any way special...
Dance By Night
Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me won’t walk in darkness but will have the light of life” (John 8:12). Jesus spoke these famous words during the Festival of Tabernacles, one of three annual pilgrimage festivals in which...
The Fierce Love of God
The third in a three-part series of reflections on gifts and lessons that come from seasons of darkness… The love of God is different from mine. The darkness taught me this. One of my chief priorities in life is sparing people pain—especially those...
The Gift of Reaching
The second in a three-part series of reflections on the gifts and lessons that come from seasons of darkness… What does it look like to honor God when you’re at the utter end of yourself? I thought about this question a lot during my last season of...
When the Lights Go Out
At least three times in my life, I’ve experienced seasons of particularly intense darkness. Two of these seasons were triggered by wrenching changes in circumstance. One fell seemingly without any external cause at all. I look back on these dark...