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Living on the Wild Side

Living on the Wild Side

Say among the nations: The LORD is king. // Psalm 96:10 Flailing my arms with cheerful four-year-old abandon and twirling in my socked feet and soft nightgown, I slid into...
November 25, 2024
Many Parts, One Body

Many Parts, One Body

Now you are Christ’s Body, and individually parts of it. // 1 Corinthians 12:27 The sunset limned the trees in my path with a gentle glow while birds chanted symphonies...
September 16, 2024
Straight To The Heart - Blessed Is She

Straight To The Heart

“Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” // Matthew 9:2 I hated him at first, the man who hit me with his car. How he had knocked me to the asphalt...
July 03, 2024
He is My Safe Place - Blessed Is She

He is My Safe Place

. . . I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap, so is my soul within me. // Psalm 131:2 I awake...
November 06, 2023
Waiting For the Dawn - Blessed Is She

Waiting For the Dawn

My soul waits for the LORD More than sentinels wait for the dawn. // Psalm 130:5-6ab My palm started to sweat as I wrapped my hand more tightly around my cell...
October 18, 2023
He Sees You - Blessed Is She

He Sees You

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." // John 1:48 Another...
August 23, 2023
Seasoning From Within - Blessed Is She

Seasoning From Within

You are the salt of the earth. // Matthew 5:13 My roommate has recently become mildly obsessed with Samin Nosrat’s book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and its corresponding Netflix series...
June 12, 2023
That Steep Learning Curve - Blessed Is She

That Steep Learning Curve

“Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.” // John 17:17 I closed the classroom door and collapsed in tears at the table beside my desk, hiding my humiliation...
May 23, 2023