“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” –Helen Keller This isn’t something I planned to write about. In fact, when it comes to avoiding struggle, I’d like to maintain my silence and let the subject pass right by. There are probably plenty of other things equally valuable I could choose.
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“How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to. Then you push back your sleeves and start … It will be completely awful. It will be unreadable [excrement]! You won't have a clue how it will amount to anything, ever. And to that, I say, Welcome. You just do it anyway.” — Anne Lamott This
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It isn’t my truth any more than it was my experience, chosen and fashioned by higher hands. I know each story is a hunt and no one gets to chose theirs, that it choses you, and it’s difficult to know at first what it might speak to someone else of all experiences and all relationships. I believe in the purpose of hunting. But that doesn’t mean
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"Ooh, what is this? Is this German? Do I detect honey?" I’ve been working on my novel for over 10 years. The whole truth is that it’s been closer to 13. Telling my story has been like dragging a bear out of bed in winter. What can I say? I’m a slow waker. But one thing has helped me accept
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This morning I was back in the orange shag carpet of my childhood home in Long Beach, California. The light green walls and dark wood panneling capturing that perfect inexpensive elegance… I recalled the impressionable boy of newly-evangelical parents, the sensitive first-born son of a family "saved" in the California Jesus movement. Campus Crusade, Maranatha music, door-to-door witnessing, and 2
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