Where’s Donavan?

I got to work and was ready to get going. I was working a double so I needed to be on my A-game. I had a good closing crew so I wasn’t worried. Donavan had become my favorite closing guy. He was much older than me and everyone else who worked there. He worked really...

Life Sucks Sometimes

It’s a privilege to have my sweet little sister, Jessica, be a guest writer this week! I have seen her grow leaps and bounds through one loss after the other. She really has been like an perfume bottle that has been shattered and leaves it’s unmistakable...

What Grief Has Felt Like…

If you know me, I am not a verbal processor (I process through writing), and if I can not figure things out in my own head and get it on paper, I feel silenced. But I’ve been trying to force myself to write and to take the next step. There have been more months than...

Catch the wind in your sails…

I was scrolling through my emails trying to find a link when I came across this quote: God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease — smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see — but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with...