Jun 21, 2018 | books, healing, mental health, wholeness
For the RevGalBlogPals’ “Faith and Illness” column this week, I expounded upon my experiences of faith through the lens of PTSD, which I first wrote about in a chapter of Denial Is My Spiritual Practice. Here’s the column: There is no safe...
Mar 12, 2016 | confession, Lent, mental health, prayer
email bills bank soccer soccer store email store laundry homework email email If I accomplish all these things (and a few more) — are you listening, God? — then I will be satisfied with this day from sunrise to sunset. I’m telling you all that I hope...
Jul 8, 2015 | mental health, poem
I am thirsty, overdue to drink in the illusion of time that tastes deceptively like joy in a clear tall glass ice cold, not meant to last in life’s heat but surprisingly, mercilessly able to linger enough to multiply thirst to increase longing and I would drink...
Dec 31, 2014 | mental health, prayer
The despair of the new year is that I will still be me while the hope is that You will mercifully still be You.
Oct 10, 2014 | confession, healing, mental health, prayer, vocation, wholeness
Worrying and twisting my soul over all that is and all that may be and all that needs to be paperwork homework new projects continuing projects self improvement projects write less weigh less exercise at all eat healthier fold laundry make dinner pay attention connect...
Apr 2, 2014 | healing, Lent, mental health, prayer, vocation, wholeness
Not the life of ghosts, O my God, but the life of being do I wholly seek. To live not in apparition or fleeting vision but in flesh and in tangible connection. Let dry bones crumble to dust; do not waste time rebuilding muscle but start fresh! Start fresh in me, I...
