Posts Tagged ‘hope’
Do This Instead
This is mostly written to myself, as a reminder that the things I usually do are not the things that make me happy. I’m trying to change that.
Read MoreA Tattoo and a Prayer
It seemed like a good time to carve these words onto my chest. I have a feeling I’ll need them close by in the days ahead.
Read MoreThe Chaos of Hope
Words are wild, violent slippery things; you never know when they might go flying out of control. But if anything, this essay is about losing control, about leaning into the chaos of hope.
Read MoreIn the Beginning…. Shit
Then God spoke into the darkness and said “Let there be light.” And not a damn thing happened.
Read MoreRend the Heavens (A Psalm for Advent)
This is my tired advent prayer. Fuck this shit indeed. Amen. Which, being translated, means: How long oh Lord?
Read Moreday 19: enough to be simply here
I don’t have to be happy every day. Some days it is enough to be simply here.
Read Moreday 9: and sometimes you don't
I’m tired and my eyes hurt. It’s a good sort of tired because I’ve spent all day having adventures with my kids, but tired just the same and I honestly don’t feel like writing right now. I tell you that to say this: sometimes you feel like it and sometimes you don’t. This is true…
Read Moreday 6: particularly in between
Anne of Green Gables once said about how happy she was to live in a world with Octobers, and I respectfully disagree.
Read MoreFrom the Other Side
I can still remember how empty those words felt a year ago, how little I believed what I was writing when I told myself I’d make it to the other side.
Read MoreDay 16: Healing
I don’t need a calendar to tell me it’s been a year. I can feel it in the air when I step outside, the crisp wind that tears leaves from trees and sends them skidding down Minneapolis sidewalks. Images crowd in at the periphery of my memory. I don’t need to glance at them to know…
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