Christmas
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How the Babe Stole Grinchness
It’s been a really hard year. The kind of year that sinks it’s cold teeth into you and chills you all the way through. A year filled with moments of darkness, feeling hopeless and asking God difficult questions. Moments of waiting, endless waiting. Silence when I just want a comforting voice. At times I’ve felt tested and Continue reading
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Tiny Lights, Tea Cups and Snowflakes
The other night I went to a Chinese Lantern Festival in Dallas. I walked through scenes that looked like something out of Alice and Wonderland or Willy Wonka. Beautiful lit-up sculptures looked ordinary until you got closer and realized they were made of out teacups or thousands of tiny vials filled with colored water. Things Continue reading
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Part B: The Redemption of Jekyll & Hyde
This time of year everything is magnified. All of the year seems to come to a head. The good done. The bad that still exists. The ugliness of consumerism. The beautiful idea of gifts given with no strings attached. (Is that possible? Can a gift really be a gift? Can we, who thrive within a Continue reading
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10 Impossible Things Before Breakfast
There are mornings I wake up and immediately believe two lies: 1. That today is just another day. 2. That I am jut an ordinary human being. I forget: 1. I am breathing. Life itself is a miracle. 2. I am a hero on a journey. 3. Everything is mine, because it was given to Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 