• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • View AliaJoyWriter’s profile on Facebook
  • View aliajoyh’s profile on Twitter
  • View aliajoy’s profile on Instagram
  • View aliajoy’s profile on Pinterest

Alia Joy

a student of grace, seeking wonder, becoming fluent in the language of hope

  • Home
  • About
    • Books
  • Glorious Weakness
  • Subscribe
  • Speaking
  • Contact
    • Disclosure Policy and Advertising

hurt

The God of Found Things

July 30, 2015 By Alia Joy

  I have some big news and for those who read my last newsletter (The God of Lost Things) you'll really get why. If you haven't and want to subscribe or read the last one in the archives you can do that here--> Enter your email addresspowered by TinyLetter I may have been a child, traipsing about with the Himalayas as my backdrop. I sang worship songs in a circle, my crisscrossed chicken legs splayed out in every direction. God was both nebulous and near. A common Holy thing. As …

Read More

Filed Under: Suffering Tagged With: dreams, Faith, faith, God, hurt

When We Need to Lament: An Incourage Post

June 26, 2015 By Alia Joy

The sheet breaks loose from the gurney and the plastic mattress lurches up like a belch when I curl myself fetal. I struggle to position myself away from my body. To push my synapses away from muscle and bone and receptors and find solace in the quiet hush of a body without pain. But the agony lives in me. How does one escape what hurts from the inside out?   Continue Reading...   …

Read More

Filed Under: Race, Suffering Tagged With: Church, grief, hurt, justice, lament, racism, Uncategorized

The Truth Is I am Tired: An (in)courage Post

April 15, 2015 By Alia Joy

Sometimes I write and people tell me I’m brave. Because I write hard things. Because I dive past the small talk and tell you where it hurts. Because I don’t want to pretend. Because I tell you it’s ok if you hurt too, I know the balm for the scars we carry, the antidote to utter despair, the flicker of light when your feet stumble and bruise in the dark night. Because I tell you He is big enough to be met with your doubts and your worries. I want to invite you to meet Him, know Him more, see …

Read More

Filed Under: Story, Suffering, Writing, writing Tagged With: encouragement, Faith, faith, Faith and Culture, God, hurt, story

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Welcome

Hi, I’m Alia Joy

INFJ and Enneagram 4w5…so it’s complicated. Wife and mom, coffee-dependent, grace saved, cynical idealist learning fluency in her native tongue, the language of hope. My pen is my weapon of choice to fight off the darkness when depression looms, it is my compass for navigating my messy mind, my even messier heart. Writing is my wilderness and my home. I write the reminders to find my way back to the heart of God. I write to feel God’s pleasure.

Connect

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

How do we stay fluent in a language of hope?

Join me monthly as we delve into grace, beauty, and wonder for the messy and broken bits of life.   Also, get insider content I don't share anywhere else and be entered to win my monthly giveaways of books, resources, and other shenanigans and whatnots. 

Looking for something?

Footer

Instagram

Instagram did not return a 200.

Follow on Instagram

  • Instagram

Subscribe



  • Like me on Facebook Follow me on Twitter Follow me on Pinterest

Copyright © 2012 · Narrow Paths to Higher Places · Powered by Wordpress & Genesis Framework ·

 

Loading Comments...