What's Saving my Life
I am taking a page from Barbara Brown Taylor today and easing back into writing with a post about what is saving my life right now. Of course, the things in here aren't truly what I consider to be saving my life, but maybe a better way to phrase this is what are the things that are giving me life right now? What things are filling me with joy, giving me an extra pep in my step, helping me to get through these winter doldrum days? I've been on a writing hiatus, at least in a public way, for longer than I have desired. And it is not for lack of desire to write, but more for wanting to shield our tiny family from input of others while navigating our own heavy grief. I've found writing to be a more private practice over the past two years, as I poured out the words through prayer in tear-stained pages of my prayer journal while crying out in lament to the Lord for the season of recurrent pregnancy loss that we were walking through. Five miscarriages, sev...