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 | Mar 31, 2018 | Adelaide, Basics, Challenges, Easter, Faith, Family, Grace, Harper, Heathcliff, Holidays, Hunter, Jesus, Kids, Love, Peace, Relationships, Stella, Theology, Truth
I’ve been looking for the essence of Easter. Cleaning out the closet, if you will, and ditching all of the stuff that may be nice, interesting, or appealing to someone else, but for me not really useful. I don’t want to argue about theology. I don’t even want to try to understand everything. I just want Easter in a nutshell, Easter distilled, Easter in its simplest form.
by Gwen | Dec 26, 2017 | Christmas, Grinch, Harper, Holidays, Hunter, Hunting, Jesus, Kids, Love, Noise, Peace, Stillness, Uncategorized
My nephew Hunter loves to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas, except he calls the Grinch the “Grunch.” Hunter does not like the new Jim Carrey Grunch. Only the old-school cartoon Grunch will do (and I totally agree). So the other night he was over at...
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 27, 2017 | Exercise, Food, Gratefulness Project, Humor, Peace, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
All of you judgmental types are thinking how unhealthy this is.
by Gwen | May 25, 2016 | Church, Comfort, Education, Faith, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Humor, Peace
That old mantra: get out of your comfort zone. And it occurred to him, what is so bad about staying in your comfort zone? A comfort zone actually sounds kind of nice. Is it possible we’ve been getting it wrong all along?
I thought that was pure genius.
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