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.

Seven Quick Takes, The Unexpected Edition

Posted on 8/13/2010 at 10:56:15 AM

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I know I haven’t posted in a couple weeks (though I’ve thought about it more than once) and, as a result, this will be a rather loooong post (sorry). I didn’t post the first week because my life was just too boring and my mind simultaneously too overwhelmed such that I couldn’t think of anything [...]

Turning up the heat on Elena Kagan

Posted on 6/30/2010 at 12:56:13 PM

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Today is Day 3 of Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings and if she hasn’t started to sweat yet, I imagine she will today. Judicial experts and pro-life advocates have ramped up their opposition this week and built a strong and compelling case against Elena Kagan becoming the US Supreme Court justice to replace Stevens. Though she [...]

Father’s Day 2010–or 1775?

Posted on 6/23/2010 at 10:21:48 AM

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My dad loves almost everything about the colonial period of American history–the politics, the written works, the major figures, the culture, and especially the food! Knowing this, my sisters and I planned an authentic meal from the official Colonial Williamsburg cookbook (yes, there really is such a thing) for our family to enjoy in celebration [...]

bittersweet

Posted on 5/1/2010 at 6:05:55 AM

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Last August, after spending a summer in Washington, DC, I was very ready to leave and return home for a variety of complicated reasons. I met Anne for an early breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien in Georgetown to say goodbye and she could tell that I was ready to go. My internship was over, my [...]

Today I am a Ma’am

Posted on 2/2/2010 at 8:39:51 PM

Okay, to be honest, I have never been called “ma’am” (that I can remember), but since that is the title of the episode when Mary Richards starts her new job in season 1, that is the title for this post about my new job internship. I may not be 30 yet, or getting paid, or [...]