Over the past 2+ weeks I’ve unpacked a lot of the baggage I picked up along the way in my time at Amazon. It has been an almost physical unwinding of the tension between body and soul that I’d allowed to get wound so tightly that I had little focus on anything beyond survival and […]
I didn’t do it perfectly. But I did it. I showed up every day and gave it what I had to give. Some days there was more to give than other days. Some days I did it with a smile. Other days I could only keep my eyes down, grimace, and get through. I used […]
What was she wearing? This crime against the Duggar girls, the ensuing cover up, and the massive supporting of the crime by the religious right is working over the deepest, darkest parts of my soul. You know…the parts that said “What happened was your fault. He wasn’t to blame” for the first 20 or so […]
Dear Duggar Sisters*, I’ve only seen your show a time or two and know very little about you except what I’ve read online. I’m not a fan of TLC and have very different spiritual and political beliefs from what your parents share publicly. Sadly the one thing we really have in common is probably the most […]
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority… –Paul, 2 Timothy 2:11-12 For centuries it has all come down to a few sentences. A few sentences in one direction that are counter to the other things Paul says. A few sentences that do not line up easily with the rest of […]
When a child is born we naturally start defining them. Oh she looks like her mother. She’s serious like her father. She’s kind of a cry baby. As we grow there are always adults on hand with opinions. If she were more like her sister she’d do better in life. It’s not that she isn’t […]
Fat girls notoriously have a love/hate relationship with their bodies. Oh…who are we kidding…WOMEN notoriously have a love/hate relationship with their bodies. Interspersed between moments of extreme passion and basking in the look in the eyes of a man who want our body, can be days of ignoring mirrors or obsessing in front of them. […]
At dinner last night my sweet friend Monique said “One of the things I most like about you is that you aren’t jaded.” As I laid in bed a few hours later, I rolled the compliment around and around in my head to test to see if it was true. I thought of the reasons I […]
For so many Passover and Easter and Resurrection weekend is the most holy of weekends. The weekend when we celebrate the hand of God washing over Egypt making the way for freedom for the Israelite slaves. The Friday we suffer with Christ. Saturday we wait. Sunday we rejoice and are again shocked with what it […]
The very last paragraph of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis says: Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, […]