Grace
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An Open Letter of Apology (To Anyone I Gave Religion Instead of Love)
Hi, It’s me, Brooke. I am a gorgeous mess, an abstract soul, a work of art some people can’t decipher. In the past I was full of fear and insecurity. I hated myself. I remember making a mental list of all the things that would have to change to become “normal.” Some things were in my 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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The Beauty of Past Tense
Today yellow leaves drift downward and scatter upon the parking lot outside my window. I read a few sentences of words the God-man said once, words he still says, over and over. “Take heart, for I have overcome the world.” “Have overcome.” Not, “Will overcome.” Never has past tense felt so comforting. Never have words been Continue reading
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My Heart Is An Open Window
My hands are ready to create something new My soul is open to all that is true Come in however You wish please do Thousands of miles across the world New colors paint streaks in my head Red, green, and gold overcome cobwebs This goes against all I have been told This story of beauty Continue reading
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Windows Are Rolled Down
Last night I was driving back from work. I enjoy my shift, starting at 3:30 and getting off at 11:30. I never have to sit frustrated in bumper to bumper traffic. Especially when I get off and midnight is approaching, it is a different world. I roll my windows down. This, my soundtrack: The lights Continue reading
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Like Air & The Sea
what if I were to told you that you are loved extravagantly violently passionately in a mad sort of way that makes no mental sense but holds you together, stitching broken emotions, a tangible presence that fills your being with visions of the ocean wide, deep, never unending unfathomable what if I told you the 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
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A Handful of Crumbs- Thoughts on Grace & Identity
I picked up this memoir by Kim Sunee, “Trail of Crumbs” partially because the cover was pretty, partially because it was on clearance for $5, but mostly because of the subtitle, “Hunger, Love and the Search for Home.” That subtitle could just as well describe the book I am currently working on, “The Wizard of Continue reading
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From Starvation to Drunken Joy
It’s hard to swallow sometimes the sweet liquid that You are enough it burns my pride as it cures it but when I get pills stuck in my throat (self-made medicine from a factory in my heart in that smoggy part that doesn’t fully believe) I can see no other alternative and I wouldn’t want Continue reading
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“God’s Will” Doesn’t Tie Us Up
Christianity is a weird and awkward thing. The more I love Jesus and see who He really is the more I realize I want absolutely nothing to do with religion. “Religion” literally means, “to bind or tie.” I have returned to bondage over and over again in my life. I have listened to the voice, Continue reading
Brooke Gale LouvieR 