Lavender & Lace

Time doesn’t heal a broken heart. Grace heals a broken heart.  Sometimes when we hear that word “forgiveness” we attach it to the hardest things that we have ever walked through. And we feel like forgiveness is such an unfair gift we now have to give to the person (or persons) who hurt us the… Continue reading

It’s time to figure out what to do with the painting, I sigh as I tug the rolled canvas out it from its cobweb home in the corner of the garage. How long has it even been here? Three years? More? Since he bought this house? Since I called it mine? Tears sting the corners… Continue reading

Trauma is a word used very casually these days. For most people it means just having a bad experience, usually one that “sticks,” and isn’t easily forgotten. But trauma actually is; any event that overwhelms our ability to cope. As any psychologist will tell you. The important distinction is that trauma is not what happened… Continue reading

Show me  How to wail and whimper  Weep and scream  The anguish  Through guttural cries  Teach me the rhythm  Of pounding my chest  And loosen my lips  To sing the notes of lament. -Grace P. Cho Continue reading

We do not grieve as those who have no hope. (1 Thessalonians 4:13) But I have been grieving a lot these past couple days, I don’t know about you. With everything going on in the news I have felt very depressed and very overwhelmed as I watch the country I once knew and loved, fall… Continue reading