I would like to begin today by speaking about my dreams and the people who helped me realize them! My first job out of college was working for Saatchi & Saatchi in New York City. We shared a building with the most respected publishing house, Penguin, now Penguin Random House.
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I am not alone in feeling the world has come undone. God surely is weeping for us. "Love God and love your neighbor," so simple and yet we continue to miss the mark. I am weary from all the violence in my neighborhood and many neighborhoods across the land and
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I wrote this prayer early Sunday morning for church. After the service, someone came up to me and said, "Thank you for reminding me I have a little of heaven in me." We are more than our current circumstances, our insecurities, our flawed humanity. Embroidered throughout us is the the
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This past spring tested me in mind, body and spirit. Four tragic funerals. I was soul-flat. The pain and suffering had worn down the leather soles of my faith. Instead of panicking, I got quiet. I have been here before. This summer, I found myself asking some heart-felt questions: Is
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Over the coming weeks, I am going to post every Monday morning tips for healing. I find I am having to do the work myself to recover my hope and nurse my grief. When I feel tender, I lean into prayer, scripture, music, nature, writing, and cooking for friends and
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I am in a season where I feel there are not enough hours in the day to transfer from my heart to God's everything I long for, worry about, and I am thankful for. I confess there have been times in my life that God was the last place I
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I am in a season where I feel there are not enough hours in the day to transfer from my heart to God's everything I long for, worry about, and I am thankful for. I confess there have been times in my life that God was the last place I
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Welcome back to Bread and Honey! Thank you for your patience. This has been an exciting and busy time as I am working on a new book (more to come!) and I am deep in the process of ordination. Every September of my childhood, my mom would gather my
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I have always loved trees: the prehistoric ginkgo, the Angel Oak, the sweet Southern magnolia, a grove of olive trees, the elegant weeping willow. I fell in love with my husband hiking Sewanee’s famous Perimeter Trail beneath a towering fortress of pine trees. For my 40th birthday, David gifted me
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Sometimes "Life" (the Ukraine Russian war, the economic downturn, the Afghan Refugee crisis in Nashville, teenage shenanigans, family health issues, a child off at college, friends battling cancer, addiction, betrayal in their marriages, aging parents, a future unpredictable and unknown —the list is endless) leaves me feeling anxious and insecure
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