Little tidbits about how I'm seeing the Lord work daily. Come on in!
At work, I've started leading a creative writing group every other week with some of our clients. Many of them come in saying that they are not writers and will not be able to do this. Over and over I tell them about how they will surprise themselves. Everyone is a writer. Something similar happened [...]
If you grew up in church like I did, you probably often heard the words, "You are not saved based on good works! You are saved by grace through faith!" I would smile and nod along. Absolutely, of course! God is not saving me based on what I accomplish. Yes, yes, yes. I heard all [...]
My boyfriend and I decided to meet in the middle this weekend for a day trip to Huntsville. I was in charge of finding a coffee shop; he was in charge of planning and finding an activity for our date. He thought it would be fun for us to go to the U.S. Space and [...]
Do you ever just get an itch to clean out your entire house? I'm not talking just shuffling the clutter around and giving yourself the impression that everything is neat except it's all just shoved in various drawers. (It's me, hi, I'm the problem it's me.) I got home from Christmas break and said no [...]
I love the excitement that comes at the end of the year. It feels like we've canned magic in a jar all year long, watching it closely ready to release it. And then in December, the magic settles like dust over each and every crevice of my life, making it glimmer with the possibility of [...]
The summer wasn’t an easy few months by any means. I slept very little; I felt unsafe in my own home. Someone I love dearly was going through chemo, and it felt like God was allowing my soul to be suffocated by everything that felt out of my control. I don’t really buy into the [...]
Offer Up Your Firstfruits I live in what most would consider to be a nice area, but it has not been exempt from crime. Over the past few months, almost weekly someone tries to break into my car or into the Airbnb’s by our house. I went almost two months where I did not sleep [...]
The older I get, the less I feel like people want to be vulnerable and honest and go deep with me. The same is true with roles reversed, I find myself sometimes being okay with the same old shallow conversations. I feel a tug at my heart each time it happens. Aching for more. I [...]
On my 10-minute drive to work every day, I am met by many red lights. It's a short commute, for which I am grateful, but it often feels like I'm constantly stopping just to start again. My driving to work reflects what it would probably look like if I were to take back up running: [...]
Mother's Day is a really hard day for our clients at The Next Door. No mother wants to be away from their kids on Mother's Day, and we constantly remind our clients that by being in treatment they're taking steps to become the best mothers they can be moving forward. We had a church come [...]
Mary Spencer Veazey 