Brooke Gale LouvieR

Spiritual Bites for the Weary

  • Losing Ugly

    Sometimes I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I am surprised at who I am. My face is full, not fat or anything, but full. I used to be so narrow, wispy, like there was nothing to me. For so long, I  felt so awkward and one dimensional. I was tall and Continue reading

  • Dirty Laundry & An Absent Minded Confession

    I’ve realized my last few posts have not exactly been light reading. Church abuse, cults, terrorists, sick orphans. It’s fine, I am not exactly into humor writing. But, believe it or not, I can write about things that are not so intense. Sometimes. Here is my attempt. Yesterday I went to try to get my Continue reading

  • Untangling God from "Christian" Terrorism

    “Keep your chin up as you untangle God from cold blood and bruises.” –Sleeping at Last, Careful Hands I don’t know if any of you went to my site yesterday, but it didn’t exactly look like this. While I was at motorcycle class all day (which by the way, I passed with an A, amazingly Continue reading

  • The Ninth Floor- On Cults, Hell, and Insane Faith

    A few years ago, I worked for a youth ministry, touring and putting on stadium events all over the country. I don’t write or talk about it a lot, there are a lot of good and bad things that happened those two and a half years, and I am still trying to sort through it Continue reading

  • Crabgrass and Oak Trees- A Review

    As soon as I read the back cover of Crabgrass and Oak Trees, I knew it was going to be fresh and life-giving. Crabgrass and Oak Tees is a beautiful book about what the church is. It’s hard to see the church as beautiful at times. We’ve all been disillusioned, hurt by hypocrisy, jaded. In Continue reading

  • It looks like laughter

    Today I need truth. Contrary to popular belief, there is a such thing as truth, yet  it is not what I once dogmatically defined it to be. Truth is not a system, a code, a list or a statement. Truth is a person or rather, a being, the incarnate word, love Himself- Jesus. How do Continue reading

  • Of Life and Love and Wings

    Life is not what it used to be, but it is still good. Better, even. Growing up is such a weird thing. I feel strung out on this odd tense wire of being a child and an adult, not knowing what childlike things to keep before your heart turns cold, and what things to trade Continue reading

  • because the earth does

    (I wrote this two summers ago but never posted it on here. It feels especially pertinent to life as of late.) we all want to know, “what’s wrong with the world?” but we don’t want to hear the answer we see sticks and mud as trash, yet birds use them to build a home for Continue reading

  • On Inception, ADD and Love Winning

    My roomie Mere and I were on the way back from Wal-Mart today, driving down Cooper street and she was telling me about how she had a weird dream within a dream. I have had several of those lately as well. I think we may have all been a little bit affected by Inception. I Continue reading

  • The Keys (to happiness)

    I just spent a week in the Florida keys and it felt a lot like a clearing of my mind, a softening of my demeanor, a time of grace. So often my thoughts are swallows trapped in an attic, beating against the roof until they grow weary and broken. That week, there was stillness. I Continue reading

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