Category: Reflections
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Mid-July Reflections on a Monday
This year has been about looking forward and making moves and steps and building on from this foundation of healing and starting over. It’s been a slow road, so the occasional reminders of how far I’ve come are vital. In yet another round of “my body reminds me” that at this time back in 2012…
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The Soundtrack of Deconstruction and Spacious Faith: Gungor’s Last Concert at the El Rey Theatre: The End of The World Tour and The End of Bad Religion
The Soundtrack of Deconstruction and Spacious Faith: Reflections on Gungor’s Last Concert at the El Rey Theatre: The End of The World Tour and The End of Bad Religion and the past Ten Years A walk down memory lane, a timeline. How do you put words to something that has been the soundtrack of ten…
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A Masterpiece & A Work in Progress, Simultaneously
As much as I want to not care what people think…sometimes I do worry what people think….maybe because I worry they’ll misunderstand my process. Not because I feel like I have to…but because I want to make sure I’ve explained it clearly. I hate being misunderstood. It’s something I face all the time. I am…
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Begin Again
So, like children, we begin again to learn from the things, because they are in God’s heart; they have never left [God]. This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. —Rainer Maria Rilke ✨ I can begin…
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The Language of Freedom
If you’ve known me for a while, you may or may not have noticed that my language has shifted. I’ve drastically cut back on the “religious” language that I use. This is completely intentional. It is part of my healing. It is part of my attempts at sobriety from religious addiction and trauma. Our subcultures…
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Loved Back to Life: Redemption
I studied music with a calling to lead worship. I was honored to have space to do this for several years. But I was restless. I attempted to get work at churches unsuccessfully for a countless number of years. Countless number of resumes and interviews, just to get my foot in the door. I was…
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Loved Back to Life
I am celebrating that this past week in April was my Yogiversary! I began my yoga journey and going to weekly classes three years ago! The best yoga teachers a girl could dream of, Sarah & Midori. Greatly Gracious Yoga became my lifeline and place of refuge, my sanctuary. I learned so much about what…
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Blooming
There is a story unearthing layers as I watch the landscape bloom. What is normally desert is lush and green. Greener than I ever remember. It almost feels like another land. The rain has poured and poured. It’s too much rain for many parts of our state, so desperately thirsty it gets drowned instead of…
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An Odyssey Moment
My life came to a halt four years ago when I was stopped from pursuing worship leadership. I thought it was over. I had nothing else to live for, the life was zapped from me, and I felt limp and lifeless. Then, almost 3 years ago, I started going to a weekly yoga class…
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