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Choosing to Listen {On Finding Courage}

It’s spring and I spent the day yesterday cleaning out closets, packing away winter and bringing out summer (goodbye, heavy sweaters, hello, gauzy tops). I’m on a spring cleaning tear, friend.

Choosing what to change or get rid of can be hard (I was a bit emotional putting a favourite little shirt of our Sweet […]

On Planting Pansies

I’ve been quiet in this place lately. It’s not that I haven’t had words, but that I’ve had too many.

This past winter was full of words. Of confusing words. Of hard words. Of saying words that needed saying. Of saying goodbye a hundred times, each time not knowing if it was the last word.

Too […]

On Being Truly Audacious {Ellen’s Picks Linkup}

My copy of Audacious, this month’s pick, has the spine a bit cracked and has underlining all through it. For real, this book looks used (and I’m pretty careful with my books, as a rule). When I was trying to think through what I was going to write about it, I considered just transcribing […]

Ellen’s Picks Community – Introducing Alana

Late last summer, I met up with a new friend – someone I had known at a distance for a number of years, but had never shared coffee in real life with – and shared a bit about this Ellen’s Picks God-sized dream. I had no idea how encouraged I’d be as I left […]