discernment

  • On the Eve of My Ordination

    On the eve of my ordination I am overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed with gratitude and joy and fear and hope and love and giddy delight. On the eve of my ordination, I look back, amazed that my life has brought… Continue reading

    On the Eve of My Ordination
  • The (Overwhelmingly) Great Cloud of Witnesses

    In a tunnel, in what seems somehow both like a thousand years ago and yesterday, I began to voice my call. It was a dark, isolating place in which I quietly and timidly voiced the first stirrings of my calling… Continue reading

    The (Overwhelmingly) Great Cloud of Witnesses
  • Finding My Voice in Wide Open Spaces

    A new friend of mine, Mitch, asked me to write a guest blog on his site, Create Grace, for his Music Changed Me series. At the conference where I met Mitch, I remember walking in and genuinely trying to decide… Continue reading

  • Pictures or It Didn’t Happen: Barbara Brown Taylor

    Images kept popping up in my mind as I thought about whether we would take a falsely intimate selfie or if we would appear stiff as the strangers we were in photograph captured by another stranger, anxiously awaiting his own 30… Continue reading