the /grace/ between
The grace poured out between.
On Connection and SEC Football
I promised myself connection these days but it’s been a hard two years of minimizing dysfunction and wild grief and depression and parenting hard things and pretending it’s all good in the moment. I went to a women’s fellowship for our church last night. I prayed...
On Healing
So this little postscript on healing is the accidental part two to my previous post. And happens to be the prompt for a lovely community of grace filled writers who get together on Fridays and write and read and encourage. HEAL(ING) See, after all that, after 11...
On being fine, or not – from an Army wife.
I am two okay, three birthday letters behind and I have lots of parenting things to write about but this, this is the most important thing I have to say right now. I don’t know who needs to hear this but listen up, in case it is you. I've been an Army wife for 11...
Love Baghdad. Love Anyway.
(Every time I went to write this, fresh tragedy was overtaking my social media streams. And so this may be old news in this heartbreaking season, but it still matters.) It feels like the world is on fire - and in the dog days of this summer, I am burning from the...
Wee Man: A Birthday Letter
(We've endured a series of curveballs, but I am determined to write this boy a birthday letter. We are going on four months now...) A Birthday Letter Dear Son, Happy Birthday (ish). This birthday letter is long overdue. Five whole years you've been taking in air....
On Veterans
We buried (another) friend last week.(I told you about him here, but because his desire was to be buried at Arlington with his fellow veterans, the interment ceremony wasn't until June. Bear with me-it has been a difficult, emotional season and that has been...
Memorial Day: On Waging Peace.
Truthfully there are a long list of names this Memorial Day that I can recite. We miss them always. And 10 years and some odd months later, we still say our Jaime's name every day. My friend Texas North said of her people, "It is a daily process not to mourn, but I...
To The Military Spouse
For the military spouse. Monday night was spent saying goodbye to old and new friends. They are moving on, to parts west and far east of here and it’s got me thinking about my people. We’ve landed here in the woods of Northern Virginia close to a year now and...
A Goodbye Letter
On Tuesday, May 3, my husband's dear friend of twenty six years took his own life. Even separated by time and distance there are people whose threads are so woven into our every day moments that they exist there almost unseen, until suddenly, the thread is cut....