by admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
I remember driving nearly two hours outside of Austin in my old ’98 Buick, trying to find a little camp where our church was doing a silent retreat. I’d never been on a silent retreat, and I had PLANS. I was going to get quiet, hear from God and get some...
by admin | Mar 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t remember what it felt like to not wake up with the weight of the Not Knowing. To open my eyes and stretch and let out a sigh of contentment in the morning. Long stints of Not Knowing somehow changed the way I woke and the way I lived my days. It wasn’t always...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Welcome to working from home. Welcome to staying at home. Welcome to “social distancing.” For the last few years, I’ve been working in my own apartment, video-chatting with my co-workers and spending a whole lot of time in my own house. I’ve...
by admin | Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’m not particularly good a new years resolutions. I’m more of a Lent gal—I can do most anything for 40 days. But a whole year? That feels nearly impossible. I’m just organized enough to get a lot of things done but just undisciplined enough to struggle after a...
by admin | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
A good story can be told across generations and in nearly any context. It can be whispered to eye-rubbing children before they give into sleep. It can be laughed about in the back row of a classroom. It can be talked about on road trips and debated in lecture halls....
by Melissa | Feb 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve stood behind a camera well over 35 times capturing an engagement or a wedding day. I’ve hidden behind bushes, ducked around the other side of a rock on the beach, sprinted across a field to congratulate the new couple and rejoice in the moments...
by Melissa | Dec 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
2018 was one of those years that felt certain and then chaotic and then certain and then chaotic. If you’d asked me on January 1 where I’d be, I could have told you. I would have imagined myself in Nashville or Boston. I would have seen myself in a...
by Melissa | Aug 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
“When you find contentment, you will find love.” “When you stop trying, that’s when you’ll get pregnant.” “Let go and let God.” We hear these phrases come out of well-meaning mouths often. They’re trying to remind us that it’s a journey, not a destination and...
by Melissa | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last night, I found myself on the edge of the water by a field in Silverdale, Washington, walking with a dear friend. We met one another back on the East Coast when her husband and I were in seminary. We were fast friends and she was a stellar hair stylist, so she...
by Melissa | Mar 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
So, it’s Lent. Winter is slowly giving way to Spring and we’re met with snow on Monday and rain on Tuesday and sun on Wednesday. This is an insane time of year and somehow it feels just about right for this season of discipline and fasting. When it came to...
