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It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

The God I serve is able to save us both. To give us the winning lottery ticket so all our money problems will go away. To mend our broken hearts. To bring us close to those we love. He is able. He is able. He is able. But even if He doesn’t, do not...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes. This isn’t all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I’m with someone is, “Can they admit it? And w...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to God. In his eyes, regardless of what I did or didn’t do today, ...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I grew up believing Christians didn’t just believe in Jesus. To be saved, people had to look and speak a certain way. They followed a long list of nots to ensure their holiness. They fit the mold. They followed the rules.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I was taught growing up not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, to withdraw myself from the sinful 'others'. But we are all others. We are all sinners in someone's eyes.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

The shadow is dark and the woods are cold, but they are not endless. No matter how lost you are now, you are not lost forever. You are findable. Love just keeps on looking. Love is forever tries.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just be, and let yourself feel what you feel, the guilt creeps...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and ...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I lo...

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith