Always grace. Always advocate. Always hope.
Your necessary air is restricted. You take short breaths. You wait for relief. One day, it hurt so bad you took a viability assessment. Will you live? Verdict’s out. There’s a gatdamn boot on your neck. One day, it will come off, you reason. You wait. One day, you’ll take a long, deep breath. Until […]
So there’s a new fella in my life. At first, I was finna be all coy & secretive. But on New Years Eve I quietly put up a picture of us and the next day my ex told me he knew I had a new boyfriend. “One of my Facebook friends told you, eh?” I […]
Read this little snippet from Anne Lamott’s FB page today & it encouraged me to put a few words down today. As usual, thanks Annie. For a couple of days, I’ve been marinating on something my friend, Sarah Bessey wrote on her FB page, “Sometimes, the most fearless thing we can do is keep showing […]
I know why the uncaged bird doesn’t sing. What lurks beyond the cage I cannot say. I reach, but knees knock against hollowed-out bones like the hollowed heart of their carrier. Doors swivel, flip, revolve out of character. The path unclear. Will I fly out over, around or under? I cannot decipher a clipped wing […]
I took the Megabus, Chicago to Nashville a little while ago. I joked on Facebook about how all the Black-Americans on board collectively complained about how freezing cold it was after we had a rousing discussion of Ferguson, the protest then still in its infancy. On the way back to Chicago, a black man in a […]
I shared a FaceBook post last week that made me feel powerfully vulnerable and ashamed. Bloggers call this a “vulnerability hangover,” which seems pretty all true. I shared it after tossing and turning one night, after hearing some harsh words spoken about me, I wanted to rise up and defend myself. On a subterranean level, I […]
*I wrote the following guest post for the upcoming Jumping Tandem Retreat coming up May 1-3 in Ashland, NE which I’ll be key-noting on the 1st evening! Please, pretty please come join us! Learn more about it here & register here.* Hello, my name is Grace and I’ve struggled with grace. Some say, actually many have […]
On grace, the light in the darkness. I’m guest posting today for my homie, Juan Lopez. Grace in the light of Christ means having courage. Courage to get out of bed and face the fears of basic living that overwhelm knowing grace will carry you through it. Courage when, having gotten out of said bed […]
