Thanksgiving is undoubtedly my favorite holiday, and my soul seems to yearn year-long for that sleepy, euphoric melody of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The weeks that sweep past us after the Thanksgiving turkey is cooked, carved, and cut into--for me, at least--is a time of deep reflection. Reflection upon the trees all around me [...]
Month: November 2017
to the lonely
I am lonely. It feels almost wrong somehow to confess this. I wrestle with my feelings of loneliness in the wake of people telling me "You have Jesus! How could you be lonely?" I pray over my loneliness. I do not run from it. I no longer set it upon a shelf and stare at [...]