church talk & vulnerability

I haven’t listened to a sermon in months. My younger self – from even just a few years ago – would be flabbergasted by this. I was in church for years. I loved church; I threw my whole self into it. The music, the scriptures, the sermons: all of it brought me so much comfort,

My Top 5 Posts

Due to some recent pain flares, I didn’t really have it in me to create a new post for this week. I was looking through some blog prompts and I saw one that was to share your top 5 posts. So I looked through my stats, found my 5 most-viewed posts, and am re-sharing those

My Story: Faith and Chronic Illness

TW/CW/CN – chronic illness, religious abuse/trauma, suicide, self-harm   This is a topic I’ve written on before, but I haven’t really gotten into the earlier days of chronic illness for me and how it impacted my faith at the time. I was 12 years old when, on a Friday night in September 2010, on the

Being Sick And Having Faith Isn’t An Oxymoron

On October 31, 2019, a woman whose leadership I’d been under for a time in my middle and high school years passed away. She had been diagnosed with cancer a few years prior, and after several months of treatments, she was declared cancer free. Then she got cancer a second time. I have no doubt