For the past two mornings, I have watched as the rising sun front-lit (that’s a thing right? As opposed to back-lit?) the Pacific ocean at my feet. I have marveled at it and shivered with the anticipation of the sun overhead warming my back as the waves chilled my face. For the past two evenings, […]
It has been so good to be home but it will be good to get home. This sentence. Today it’s everything. I am sitting in one of my very favorite eateries in Albuquerque feeling that ache in the pit of my stomach that happens any time the leaving of this city and state is imminent. […]
Today’s Headline: PK opens Bible and sees something with fresh eyes I’m sitting in a coffee shop…scratch that…my FAVORITE coffee shop. I’m working through a sermon on freedom and have landed squarely in the middle of the Exodus story. You should know that Moses is my Bible crush so this is my go-to story any […]
I’ve missed the sound of my own voice. Not the voice that is uncertain. Unclear. Unhappy. Unsure. UnEVERYTHING. The voice that sounds a bit ferocious when she is trying to herd the kittens…or in my case the feral barn cats. The voice that is not in the least bit afraid of what will happen when […]
THE GIRL the girl that people wound then wonder after wistfully the girl that men love lose then wish they’d done the former skipped the latter the girl that doesn’t matter until she’s the girl that knows whatever it is that you don’t know but need to know the laugh that goes missing the hug […]
I pulled to the stop light and waited to turn right. The same stop light. The same right. The same wait that I have every morning. In true Seattle form the man on the corner was frowning in my general direction. Closed off. Suspicious. Practicing the freeze. And then I smiled at him. I looked […]
This week the world seems to have dipped it’s bucket into the deep well of sadness that dots this wilderness landscape. And some of that bucketful seems to have gotten into my drinking supply. I felt my spirit sink into a place where regret and fear and home-sickness and people-sickness started to effect the day […]
When you are studying freedom in the Bible, it is easy to slide between discouragement and joy from story to story. As you watch God’s story played out in humans…fallible…hard…warmongering humans…you can get distracted and forget that the true arc of God’s story is about freedom. And then I lift my head from the stack […]
I am the Princess of the Land of Eggshells. I have been walking on them…carefully, daintily, fearfully…for many many years. I know how to navigate their delicate nature without the creation of nary a crack. And I can do it all with very very quiet breath…so as not to disturb the other inhabitants of this […]
At about 3:45 AM I woke to find that I was too warm under the heavy down comforter. So I shuffled to the window and opened it to get some air flowing into the room. I then lay in the bed for the next 30 minutes trying to fall asleep but realizing that the sound […]