Advent is here. We are straining forward each day with anticipation. But still, this season of darkness and yearning is upon me. The early day’s sun retreats leaving a smattering of white twinkling lights strung in rows across the tree like fingerprints. The candle’s flesh is melting down its sides like shedding skin and it flickers like a great hope in the darkness. I can’t help but feel my depression is an assault on God’s goodness trying to blind me to everything but the most vulgar and …
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Confessions of A Newbie Contributor
My stomach is creaking and groaning like planks in an old wooden porch. I am restless fingers and a timid heart. They hover above the keyboard tentative. Backspace devours the words as fast as I get them down. Nothing comes out right. I’ve imagined what my words would look like spread out a bit more. I keep a tiny corner of the internet with a readership I know mostly by name. But I dream in those quiet hours, when the clacking of my keyboard staves off the dark, that my words might find …
Outside In (a Guest Post by Cindy Brandt)
I just got back from Faith and Culture Writers Conference where I shared about Truth Telling and how to steward our stories. There are certain voices/stories/people that just resonate with me about ALL THE THINGS, even when we disagree, and so many of those people were present. The ones who challenge me, and convict me, and inspire me. We need all sorts, don't we? We had rich conversations about things that matter. Kingdom things. I'll be sharing more about what God did there in the coming …
