by JAC | Sep 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
” In the waiting, we come to know ourselves more deeply: who we really are, what we hope for, and who we’ll become.” Grok Nation published a short piece of mine yesterday. It’s about the waiting we do as women in different seasons of our lives,...
by JAC | Jul 7, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Uncategorized
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder.”...
by JAC | Jun 8, 2018 | Big Words, Simplicity, Uncategorized, Waiting
“This ordinary time is gifted in its quiet, marked passing Christ slips about calling and baptizing, sending and affirming, pouring his Spirit like water into broken cisterns, sealing cracks and filtering our senses, that we may savor the foolish...
by JAC | May 29, 2018 | Diary, Fear, Love and Loss, Poems, Uncategorized
To try to be brave is to be brave.” George MacDonald Today we are outside on our driveway blowing bubbles. It’s only May, and the leaves are freshly born and green, but already, now that they are here, they are foreboding of fall. I am safest in March,...
by JAC | Apr 27, 2018 | Diary, Love and Loss, Poems, Uncategorized
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life! -Emily Dickinson It’s my 42nd birthday today. I have no fancy plans. It’s not the cheeriest birthday poem, but I can’t help but...
by JAC | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today by Frederick Buechner It is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there will never be another just like it again....
