by Melissa | Nov 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve been quiet over here for a few months. And it’s not that I haven’t been writing at all, it’s just that I haven’t been sure of what to say. Sometimes, you’re so tired from climbing to the top of the mountain to proclaim...
by Melissa | Jul 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Thanks for being the best best friend an 8-year-old could wish for.” It was a Facebook message from my childhood best friend Lindsey. We haven’t seen each other in nearly a decade, but she had found an old collection of postcards she’d written...
by Melissa | May 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
I told y’all from the start that this was a messy place for when we haven’t quite figured out this tension of living on this side of Eternity. That I would come here to mention things occasionally. It’s not really a soap-box and I’m obviously...
by Melissa | Feb 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
The season of Lent is nearly upon us. A time to pause, reflect, pick things up and set things down. A moment to pray and see and seek and wonder. A season to be reminded that Christ is the focus. But if I’m being honest? It’s hard to figure out what needs...
by Melissa | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
I was pulling onto 4th Avenue North in Franklin when my phone lit up. “What biblical comfort would you give to someone struggling with anxiety/panic attacks?” My mind flooded with those moments. Weeping on the bed of my hotel last year, fists clenched,...
by Melissa | Jan 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
I didn’t even realize what was happening until I was already deep in a can’t-go-back-now sort of way. I was working on a video project at my office and it was getting later and later, and suddenly, it was dark. Granted, that’s not too unusual in the...
