The bathroom was my hiding place as a passive teenage girl. Not just when I needed time to myself on lonely nights. I used the bathroom as an escape during dates, when the situation rose beyond my control.
How Passivity Cost Me, Part 2
Prize-Winning Poem! Sunday Dinner, July 1985
Friends, this poem won 3rd place in the poetry contest at this weekend’s All Write Now! conference. Enjoy!
Chicka-chicka-chicka
the pressure cooker prattles
on the avocado stove
while I help Grandma
set the table for ten.
How Passivity Cost Me, Part 1
One day in January of my junior year I was startled to hear a boy calling out my name in the hallway between classes. I literally jumped when he spoke to me. I knew him slightly; we had shared a few classes. There he was, asking me ON A DATE.
How God Lifted Me Out of the Pit
Have you dealt with a season of depression in your life? It feels like being stuck in a pit.
Psalm 40 aptly describes this feeling and shows us how God will lift us out of that pit of depression. That’s what happened to me years ago, and I’m sharing my story with you today.
How “Anger Turned Inward” Cost Me
In October 1993 I couldn’t stuff my dark feelings inside any longer. My deep down place, the one where I had crammed my feelings, overflowed that fall.