by Gwen | Jul 15, 2020 | America, Arkansas, Basics, Brokenness, Challenges, Church, Community, Family, Forgiveness, Freedom, Friendship, Grace, Heathcliff, Home, Hope, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Love, Marriage, Peace, Relationships, Stella, Truth, Uncategorized, Unity, weirdness
Let us be the people who decide to be different from the crowd. Let us be the movers and shakers–the leaders–who show the rest of Arkansas how it’s done. Let us reject the narrative that it has to be either/or. Let us be weird and different from the whole world if that’s what it takes to also be wonderful. We can find the courage in our hearts to lock arms and stand together on the middle ground. Some might say I’m naive, but I know we can do it. Let this be the place where reconciliation begins!
by Gwen | Sep 21, 2017 | Brokenness, Comfort, Faith, Family, Grace, Hope, Jim Ford, Love, Pain, Peace
There’s a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder I was nine months pregnant with my first baby when Granny died. Earlier in the evening I stood beside the hospital bed where...
by Gwen | Apr 26, 2016 | Acceptance, Brokenness, Community, Education, Equality, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Hope, Justice, Literature, Mercy, Relationships, Social justice
I simply have to write about this cool thing that happened, because it’s one of those most beautiful kinds of stories that bring hope into the world. And if your committee meetings or Facebook feed or nightly news are anything like mine, you could use one of those stories.
by Gwen | Nov 17, 2015 | Authenticity, Beauty, Brokenness, Church, Kids, Motherhood
I’ve gone to church since I was a fetus. In my family it’s just something you do.
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