Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces, calling out the best of who we are. It comes in small inspirations. It comes in loving community. It comes in helping a soul find its worth. I want to add to the beauty, to tell a better story. I want to shine with the light that's burning up inside. This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful.
You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived - somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time.
What we must do is to stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life, the real life that God sends us day by day. What we call our real life is but a phantom of our imagination.

Archive for April, 2010

Musical Confessions

Posted on 4/18/2010 at 7:17:22 AM

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Rumors have been circulating and I think it’s time for me to set the record straight. Brace yourselves. Here goes… For the record: I really do…likecountrymusic. Really. … The “…” was just me leaving some space for cheers, laughter, guffaws, snickers, boos, I told ya so’s and Are you absolutely crazys. Now that y’all (yes, [...]

heart in training

Posted on 4/17/2010 at 9:38:56 AM

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My long-anticipated evening finally came and went and I’m still reeling from the impact. Last night, Anne and I went with a few others to The Falls Church in Falls Church, VA to see Sara Groves perform in concert as part of the ArtMusicJustice tour with Charlie Peacock and Jars of Clay. Unfortunately, JOC didn’t [...]

practicing hospitality

Posted on 4/7/2010 at 11:19:37 AM

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Other things that kept me busy the past couple weeks were three fun and exciting visits from friends and family! First, Brianne and Liane, two dear college girlfriends since freshman year, arrived on Sunday, March 21 and stayed at my apartment until Thursday morning. Unfortunately I still had to work during the day, …

When Choice Becomes Discrimination

Posted on 4/6/2010 at 10:47:08 AM

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Americans, pro-life and pro-choice alike, have spoken out against pre-natal sex selection as a form of discrimination and coercion. In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, an avowed “pro-choice” feminist and recipient of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, publicly opposed the practice of sex-selective abortion in India and China. …

i’m still alive, i promise (part 2)

Posted on 4/6/2010 at 10:39:30 AM

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Health care wasn’t the only thing that kept me from writing in my blog over the past two weeks. I was also given a writing assignment kind of at the last minute a few days before the vote and with a deadline of Monday morning (!). So I ended up spending the little free time [...]

i’m still alive, i promise (part 1)

Posted on 4/5/2010 at 8:18:28 AM

In the world of Sally Elizabeth Forsythe, silence in some form or another usually means that crazybusyness has taken over my life. And, for the past two weeks, that has been exactly the case. First, it was the health care vote on Sunday, March 21, everything leading up to it, and its aftermath, all of [...]