I once had a therapist tell me something about healing that I didn’t fully appreciate until about three years after she said it. She said: “The story you’re telling yourself about what happened may be the thing that needs healing more than what actually happened.” I nodded politely in the moment, filed it somewhere in […]
I am not a private processor by nature. When something breaks in me, in a relationship, or in a season of life, my first instinct is to talk it out with others. But after years of facing betrayal from several in a community I thought I could trust and being judged for who I naturally […]
I have a prayer I’ve been praying for years. Not decades, but long enough that there have been seasons where I’ve approached it with fresh faith and seasons where I’ve just gone through the motions. Long enough that I’ve had the quiet, uncomfortable thought more than once: What if this particular thing just isn’t going […]
Some wounds are clean. A loss that was no one’s fault. A disappointment that came from circumstances rather than choices. A hard season that arrived without a person attached to it. Those wounds still hurt, and they still require real healing. But there’s a certain straightforwardness to them. You know what happened. You know what […]
I remember the exact moment I realized I wasn’t just physically tired. When I needed a complete overhaul to fully renew. It was just an ordinary Tuesday in an ordinary week. I had slept a reasonable number of hours. I had coffee and a to-do list that was entirely manageable. But, when I sat down […]
I broke my wrist once and didn’t know it for three days. I was convinced it was just a bad sprain, so I wrapped it, adjusted my grip on things, started using my other hand for tasks that required any real pressure, and told myself it would probably renew itself and feel better by the […]
There’s something amazing about renewal during the winter before the spring. God is working even as life continues. I planted bulbs last fall that I had completely forgotten about by spring. I’d tucked them into the ground in October. Tulips, I think, and some grape hyacinths. Then the season moved on and so did my […]
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