nothing less than a love affair
Advent does something different to me: Messes my insides up; makes goo from my guts; urges me out of bed in the deep of night to sit…
View Articlewe wish you
We wish you and yours all the happy, all the merry, all the joy this holiday season. Love, The Morrisons. {Photos taken by my best girl, Rachel,…
View Articlean open letter to new years – a guest post by shea petaja
I have known her since the day I was born and she has been by my side ever since, even though we live 900 miles away from…
View Articlejust touch them!
“One day in Gubbio, a woman with severely deformed hands ran up to St. Francis. “Just touch them!” she pleaded as she raised her misshapen hands to…
View Articlelet us not forget our enemies, also known as: brothers
When the news broke yesterday that 21 Egyptians were beheaded by ISIS for being “people of the cross” and this picture circulated with headlines everywhere, I found…
View Articlethe offensive truth
“To the natural eye it looks like the relative strength of two armies fighting on the battlefield determines the outcome of the battle. But the eye of…
View Articlethe value of suffering (part 1)
It’s hard to measure and express in words the exact feelings I carried around inside me, even before the accident happened. I had reached the absolute end…
View Articlethe value of suffering (part 2, 3, and 4)
{image by Gabriel Morrison} Part 2 I have this affliction, you see: I can’t fall asleep in my bed where it’s snug and soft and safe without…
View Articlea letter to my son
Our oldest son got all busted up back at the end of March, healed quicker than anyone expected, then took off on his next adventure–just like that.…
View Articleabout my book and would you help me?
I’m sitting in the place where I sit most mornings, rocking in gentle rhythms while the earth spins at 600 miles an hour. The cardinals are…
View Articlea letter to the exiles
Image by John D. McHugh To the refugees in exile everywhere: I’m trying to imagine what I would say to you if we were face to face,…
View Articlemaking it home + giveaway!
My friend, Emily T. Wierenga, bleeds kindness and generosity and desire for Kingdom-come. Everything she puts her humanity and holiness to is pressed inside the world for…
View ArticleBandersnatch releases today and I’m giving away copies!
(Images by Melissa Kane) “In July of 2000, when my husband and I got married, I was the ripe old age of nineteen and he was a…
View Articlebandersnatch book trailer
I write so many words . . . and for a change, I decided to say them instead. My friend Melissa and I made a Bandersnatch book…
View Articlethis is how i feel, giveaway winners + party photos!
I spent 3 hours typing, only to backspace every word to a blank page again. I feel out-to-sea and skinless; like I can’t string 3 sentences together,…
View Articlewill i come back to life?
I’m not the same person I was a month ago, last week, or yesterday. Two years and a thousand demanding, laborious life events eventually caught up and…
View ArticleLetting The Land Lie Fallow
1. I want you to know where I’ve been, and what I did once I got there, but the last time I stitched more than six sentences…
View ArticleSafe, Great, First — Things Jesus Never Promised
SAFE, GREAT, FIRST — Things Jesus Never Promised (A three part series.) This work is a response to the three most repetitive outcries I see on Facebook…
View ArticleSAFE, GREAT, FIRST – Things Jesus Never Promised (Part 2)
{Image Credit: Rachel Liu} This work is a response to the three most repetitive outcries I see on Facebook from men and women who voted for the…
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