Grace
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Girl, Quit Washing Your Face
When I was a teen and in my early 20’s, I struggled a lot with acne break-outs. I felt ugly and embarrassed. I’d cover up with make-up, but those pesky pimples would always poke through. I tried different products: chemical ones I had to order specially in the mail, natural ones that smelled like hippies Continue reading
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Winter Steals My Songs Away
I broke down the other night while rocking Wyatt and singing to him before bed. It’s a song I’ve sang a million times over the last decade or so, in different countries and different seasons of life. Maybe I don’t have the strength Maybe I don’t have the faith You brought me here in 40 Continue reading
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The Only Cure For Despair
Every human is confronted with the same decisions: believe the dark thoughts or cast them out. And I am realizing that intersection faced multiple times a day is really what makes or breaks a life. I am reminded again, you can have the whole world but lose your soul. Money is an illusion. Adventure can Continue reading
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Rest, Child
When I was a child, growing up in rural New Hampshire, I always loved lilacs. There was one house in particular which had a yard covered in lilac bushes, and whenever we’d pass it, I’d say to myself, one day I’ll have a yard covered in lilac bushes. After growing up, moving to Texas and Continue reading
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Enough For Today
Moments of clarity come, falling into my heart like snow, covering the dust and dirt, the anxiety and confusion, creating a new landscape of white. I am thankful. Deep down in my bones. My boot-covered feet crunch as I walk across our lawn to the mailbox, making new footprints in the white powder. I inhale Continue reading
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I Fight Anxiety Through Taking Back Words
I’ve had this phrase rolling around my head lately. I keep pushing it back, telling myself I am ok. I say it to myself when I wake up in the morning and an immediate feeling of dread washes over me, like I did something terribly wrong but I can’t remember what it was. When I Continue reading
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From a Battle Cry to a Peaceful Sigh
I had never felt such a deep sense of purpose as when Ron Luce announced in 2005 that we had 4-5 years to save the world. I was 19, an intern at Teen Mania Ministries just finishing my first year. I was full of fire, wide-eyed and ready for more action. According to his passionate Continue reading
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I Know You.
I know you. You think you are the only one who wakes up from a disturbing dream, and sinks back into the feeling that you don’t really want to be awake today. You feel crazy when you start crying when fresh coffee cascades all over the counter. There is some kind of leak in your Continue reading
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I Love Jesus, But Sometimes I am an Atheist
The most terrible acts in the world happen when human beings treat each other as less than human. A Chinese orphanage where special needs children had their limbs tied to hard kitchen chairs and left alone all day to stare at the walls. A dirty room on the top of a brothel in India, where Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 