Father, my offense towards You in greater than any offense I have ever suffered against me.An irrevocable disdain,  even if only through my birth.Tainted by breath–Your original breath of life, swallowed up by death; these clay hands to pound those nails.The nails driven in by my own force.They puncture Your Dear One’s flesh.They puncture, also, […]

Two years ago to this day, Grayson Lynum took me hiking in the Vernon Marsh, a beautiful wetland–the same one he took me hiking in to ask me to date him. This time, just like the fist, he built me a fire. This time, like the first, he asked me a big question. But this […]

I may be too wordy. All throughout school, I was the one stressing not over meeting the word count on a paper, but rather limiting myself to the maximum word count allowance. And here I find myself again at 91 words over, and I have not yet written my conclusion. I hate deleting words. It’s […]

Uncertainty and insecurity go hand in hand. So meticulously we plan our days, our years, and our lives. As soon as a wrench is thrown in the works, breeding uncertainty into our minds and hearts, we surrender our security. We prove ourselves diligent to our own outline of how things ought to be orchestrated, doing […]

I desire an exhausted life. One sold out for God, my husband, and this child within me. I, however, refuse on a daily basis to live a busy life. God provided manna for the Israelites; just enough for each day He provided. On the sixth day, God provided a double portion. He gave to the […]