Making Peace With Yourself: Why Self-Acceptance is Important

I’m learning something about being a peacemaker. This lesson has been a long time in coming, and I’m sure I will continue to learn it for the rest of my life. It is the lesson of making peace with myself. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve wanted to change about myself. My hair, …

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Ink in My Veins: Journal of a Writer

I’m a writer. At least I am on evenings, weekends, and some lunch breaks. I write in journals, notebooks, on my phone, in the margins of books, on scraps of paper – and if I’m working or can’t write, I will write mentally until I can put the words on paper or screen. All day …

Orientation & Contemplation

When I hear the word adventure, my immediate thought is not "Oh, me! I'll go!" It's more like "Ask everyone else on the planet first, and if you come back to me than I'll consider it." I don't consider myself much of a go-getter or a risk taker. I don't operate by wanderlust. I wrote …

At The End

 This was written at the beginning of May, during my last few days at Bible School.I'm at the end of my year here at Capernwray Harbour, BC, and I reflect on all the things that God did.I remember flying over BC for the first time, watching the mountains and the clouds below, holding my breath …

What Beauty Leaves Behind

“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." C.S Lewis That is what I want, and I've experienced …