I found value in the kept-things. I also found value in the empty space left behind by the things I let go of.

Brené Brown sometimes defines humility with this sentence: I’m not here to be right, I’m here to get it right.

Through making this map, I wanted to surface the things I currently find to be most true in my relationship to God.

I share this story because in it, I experienced something true.

In our grief we become cartographers, locating our dead beloveds – however mysteriously – on a map.

What if our varying experiences of grief are not progressive points along a line of time but places to which we travel and in which

There are many kinds of darkness, aren’t there? And still yet, many more ways of experiencing and perceiving the different kinds of darkness.

In writing for the Reformed Journal, many of my caves have become tunnels. As I read your stories and you read mine, I can breathe

I had loved the flower virtually for years, connecting it to my faith and my vocation. And here it was in real life. It was