Tag: Trust

  • Becoming: A Seed in the Hands of the Gardener

    Becoming: A Seed in the Hands of the Gardener

    Walk into any home improvement store this time of year and you’ll see it — rows upon rows of seed packets. Tomatoes. Zinnias. Basil. Sunflowers. Each small envelope holds something far bigger than it appears.  And someone decides where it will go. It begins as a thought… “The garden should go here.”   But before…

  • Don’t Look Back

    Don’t Look Back

    Don’t Look Back: Twenty-five years. A quarter century. Looking back, it is hard to see the woman I was—or maybe more accurately, the girl. She was so broken, so addicted, feeling unworthy and unlovable, convinced she was damaged in a way that could never be repaired. She tried to take her life twice, once at…

  • Living by Trust

    Living by Trust

    The gatherings are behind us now, the lights are dimming, the tree is coming down. Now what? For many days leading up to Christmas, we’re busy with decorating, cooking, and wrapping gifts, and now it seems the world just stopped spinning. Now there’s a hush, a lull hanging in the air, days in our minds…