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When Holy Week Feels Anything But Holy

When Holy Week Feels Anything But Holy

Good Friday.  The day Jesus paid it all.  Literally.  Everything I owed. Everything you owed.  It was messy and brutal and devastating and He paid it. Romans 5:8 “But God shows His love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” I’ve […]

When Friends Become Family, and the Hardest Goodbyes

When Friends Become Family, and the Hardest Goodbyes

This post. I know it’s been coming.  I’m not sure even how to begin.  But it’s time.  I’ve written this a million times in my head.  And even tried to start typing it out a few times just to find myself staring at a blinking cursor, eyelids brimming. […]

On Crushing and Rebuilding and All the Silence

On Crushing and Rebuilding and All the Silence

So you may have noticed that other than a short post in January and February, I haven’t written much in 2017.  And if you didn’t notice, pretend you did…help a girl’s ego. It’s not as if I haven’t had anything to write about, or that […]

Grace and Truth and 4 years ago today

Grace and Truth and 4 years ago today

I just looked at the calendar this morning.  Four years, really, only four?  Four years ago today that my world changed forever?  Four years since the one who hurt me began to see… The moment I begin to see the one who hurt me as broken is the very moment I […]