Beholding Brokenness

Beholding Brokenness

An experience in Mumbai started me down the road of re-thinking my broken pottery metaphor (see Broken Pottery). I must say, it felt great to imagine myself getting more beautiful, tall, and elegant. Yet, that doesn’t seem to match my aging reality. Not entirely...
Stuck in Overwhelm

Stuck in Overwhelm

Feeling stuck in a bad place physically or emotionally is one of the worst feelings in the world. In fact, feeling hopelessly stuck traumatizes us. Think of a small animal pinned helplessly in a hunter’s trap, unable to move and scared of the hand reaching out to...
From Shutdown to Stillness

From Shutdown to Stillness

I appreciate your kind responses to my “War-Torn Women” Visio Divina exercise. So many of us can relate on different levels to the need to lament. In this next post, I use the same images to help illustrate what God has taught me about the profound beauty of learning...