We spent this weekend at Suncadia on the Mars Hill Downtown campus retreat. After talking with Shandel and Will earlier in the week about details for getting my women's dance class started, I had flyers ready and spent some time handing them out Saturday morning and inviting women to join the group on the City ( Read more... )

Today, more than in recent memory, I hear God calling me to himself. Maybe it's the weather, I don't know. The Christian walk is strange; I know I am never truly away from God yet I am responsible for my consciousness of it to some extent. I am reading a book on prayer right now, and last night when I read the chapter on covenant prayer before I ( Read more... )

the heat gives me strange dreams, where my fiance abandons me, or I'm miraculously pregnant, or there's a maniac trying to get me and I accidentally run him over with my parents' van. I wake up and get some water and fight for more sleep ( Read more... )

I find myself waiting on God like a familiar spirit or a gut feeling, and he issues through me with a strange power to which I am hesitant to attest. He is like waterfalls in my spinal fluid, or a strange release to the muscles in my forehead or shoulders. Prayer makes me cry if I center it upon his innate character as a trinitarian being. I am no ( Read more... )

So I got engaged last Friday.


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how do we give love a new name
how can we touch wonder after we've reasoned ourselves to death?
how can we give voice to our aches instead of choking them?
how can we allow our hearts to desire freely
without binding them to the limits of our previous experience?I've been fighting a new fight lately ( Read more... )

My own words are hard to find sometimes ( Read more... )

goodbye summer ( Read more... )

It's strange to be so happy. I don't understand why so many good things have been happening to me ( Read more... )

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions [...] the disillusionment that comes from God brings us to the point where we see people as they really are, yet without any cynicism or any stinging and bitter criticism. Many of the things in life that ( Read more... )