I am taking a break from my weekly posts for the next month or so in order to focus on finishing my academic semester strong. I am taking a math class online this semester, and it's tough, even for someone who generally has a good sense of numbers. I hope to be able to share … Continue reading Spring Break
Later this week, on March 22, it is Lynch Syndrome Awareness Day. Lynch Syndrome is a hereditary cancer syndrome that runs in my family. It is associated with several DNA repair genes, especially for repair of high turn over epithelial cells. Epithelial cells are the ones that line the tissues in your body, your skin … Continue reading On Transposing the Truth
Where I live early spring is also called "mud season" and it's not hard to see why. The air warms, snow turns to rain, the ground begins to thaw and all around is mud. In a place as disarmingly beautiful as the Rocky Mountains can be, mud season is ugly. Tourists avoid mud season. The … Continue reading On Mud Season
If you live in the western world there is a good chance you've heard about the Danish concept of "hygge" in recent years. English speakers might translate the idea to "coziness". It is a texture, an atmosphere, an ethos of being comforted and cared for. It brings to mind all the sensual memories of warm … Continue reading On Hygge and Comfort
"Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep." Romans 12:15 I’ve been pondering this verse a lot lately as I’ve been learning to hold joy and grief in my heart at the same time. Earlier this month I got to celebrate the growing family of a dear friend of mine and a couple … Continue reading On Rejoicing and Grieving
This week's blog post is a special guest post from Tabitha over at Living Faithfully with Autoimmune Disease. ..... If I’m honest with myself and others, I would say that I grew up in the worst environment that a child could be raised in. Between an abusive home life and five years being placed in … Continue reading On Trials and Faith
Over the course of my life with Christ I have often said that "I am not called to mission work" and that "I am not a gifted evangelist". But that, as Mauri Povich would say, is a lie. A couple years back I started listening to a podcast hosted by a couple educational YouTubers whose … Continue reading On Podcasts and the Great Commission
So I am one of those people, perhaps you are too, who insists on carrying all the groceries from the car to the house in one trip. It may be because I'm too lazy to make multiple trips, but it probably also has to do with my insistence on self-reliance and refusal to ask for … Continue reading On Groceries and Grace
You may have heard the buzzword "Intersectional" bandied about on the interwebs and elsewhere. As Wikipedia describes it, "Intersectionality considers that various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender, do not exist separately from each other but are interwoven together." We all carry these different labels, some come attached with certain ideas about privilege and … Continue reading On Intersectionality and the Kingdom
When I was in college I took Abnormal Psychology and in my textbook there was a case study for a particular condition that read just like a day in my life. I knew I had some struggles but I had never known that there was a formal diagnosis for what I was dealing with - … Continue reading On Anxiety and the Power of Thoughts
