BREATH MY ONLY BOUNDARY
HI Y’ALL! I appreciate all your sweet messages and thanks for checking on me. In answer to the two questions I get asked most: YES I am still writing and YES I am still in …
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On Toleration & Celebration
I believe God loves me but often struggle with the idea that he LIKES me.
I trust fully in Jesus and am thankful to receive his forgiveness, but I sometimes catch myself slinking around in the …
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a poem about suffering and what it means to
W A I T
what I wouldn’t give
to rise
from this window seat of longing
and brave my way into the gray
and through the gray
to part
the veil that obscures life …
How My Fear Became Faith
Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old.
With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been …
Read More →a very good place to start
Before I repost some of my other favorite pieces, it makes sense to first retell the story of how this journey as The Jesus Gypsy began. It is, quite frankly, my very favorite story to …
Read More →on Willie Nelson, Puppy Dogs, and the Holy Spirit
I am essentially an expert emotional escape artist. I am also a professional performer.
“PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN,” my life has shouted through the years.
We moved around like gypsies growing up …
Read More →get up and get busy
Sometimes, when I look out on that great big world of ours and I see all the sickness and suffering, I just want to curl up in fetal position and rock in the corner until the …
Read More →the what
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast… Ephesians 2:8-9
As we explore …
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Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
In the last post, I stated that we must …
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Good Friday
Who am I, that you’d suffer and die
That your innocent blood would let
So that I’d be redeemed and now be free
To be the person I am not yet
The nails that …
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