Trusting God Without the Packing List

We’re delighted to have Melissa Reeser Poulin as our guest blogger today, sharing her honest and insightful thoughts on trusting God.   Trust is a scary place for me. It is a location, a landscape—a windy and high hillside without much vegetation,...

Breaking Up With Codependence

“When I thought, ‘my foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul . . . The Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.” Psalm 94:18-22 (ESV) I’ve been quiet on the blog...

Afraid to Dream

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” —Carl Sandburg, poet At the final breakfast of the 2016 Mount Hermon Writers Conference, literary agent Wendy Lawton stood and addressed all those who hadn’t yet been whisked away by the airport shuttles. She...

Cultivate: Space to Hear, Space to Heal

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude I’m on a journey of cultivating space.Space to hear his whispers. Space to...