About
I’ve always loved to write. Writing not only archives sections of my story for myself, but articulates my “thank you” over and over to the good God who has written the story in the first place.
After a year like 2020, "thank you" may not be the first words that rush to leave our lips or hearts and that's ok. If you’re anything like me, the words of my heart of late have sounded much more like “help!”, “ouch!” and “why?” As my vocabulary of experience expands, so too does my desire to write it down.
Simply put, words have saved me time and time again. I recently got to thinking: if the words of others have mattered to me so much then maybe mine might matter to someone else and I could be faithful in partnering that someone else today. Maybe it’s you.
As I’ve walked through this life taking notes, I have come to think of it as one big walk Home… a stretch of road we are given to walk out of the overflowing heart of a God who would dare to create man in His image and endow us with gifts that inherently tether us, like life giving arteries, to HIS heart. A God who would say “in this life you WILL have trouble, but take heart I have overcome the world”. Oh, and one more thing: You will never walk alone.
My writing contains the evidence of the ways in which I have been trampled, pressed, awakened and positively undone. And time and time again, He tenderly kneels to pick up my pieces and charges me to tell about it. That is just what I aim to do.
I cannot promise self-help because the only help I’ve found has come from a source quite apart from myself. But I can promise to walk with you…to use my words to edify and hold you as He continues to do for me... to share in words what I am walking in steps, and to invite you to walk with me as I walk with Him...because the best image I can possibly imagine to describe this life is a walk Home.
Note: Ram Dass is credited with the phrase “we are all just walking each other home,” a beautiful thought for which I would like to give him due credit. The meaning of “the walk home” in my writing is distinct from his, as I will expound upon.
