Jul 22, 2020 | Weekly Words
My heart sank. Subject line: “Potential COVID exposure on the staff.” I immediately felt my anxiety rise and the fear creep in. I also felt a wave of depression as I soon realized that we would all need to quarantine until we received test results...
Jul 15, 2020 | Weekly Words
I have been working from home since mid-March. It’s been challenging, to say the least. The first few weeks were spent getting used to working from home, and once I got a rhythm going, it wasn’t unbearable… until weeks turned into months. Four months later, I still...
Jul 8, 2020 | Weekly Words
When you live among a couple of cultures, there is often an option to stop listening to one and lean towards the other and then switch back when you’re ready. As an American living overseas in a safe and fairly prosperous country, I regularly stop listening to...
Jul 1, 2020 | Weekly Words
This year, I had a planned pregnancy amidst an unplanned career change, and I found myself in my first year at a new job, working from home due to a global pandemic. For delivery, only my husband could be with me. We weren’t allowed visitors at the hospital or once we...
Jun 24, 2020 | Weekly Words
On Saturday, March 14, my Baptist Women in Ministry mentoring group gathered in Atlanta to deepen our connections face-to-face. The day featured lunch at Southern Sweets in Decatur, painting at The Sketching Pad in Conyers, and dinner at Revival Decatur. As I drove...
Jun 17, 2020 | Weekly Words
Liminality is a term that has been running through my mind often in this season. Liminal, comes from the Latin word ‘limen’ which means threshold. Liminal space is that in-between space where you’ve left something “old” and familiar but haven’t quite entered the...
