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A New Season

A New Season

The First Dialogue: I speak: The belly swole with hands and clay with blueprints and paints and daydream first-books and night-lights      all this articulation and song      all formation ex-nihilo      mounting like clouds      about to give way their wealth   like...
#SoulCareTuesday: Worship

#SoulCareTuesday: Worship

Welcome to the second week of #SoulCareTuesday- this week’s focus is on returning to our First Love through worship. In late August I asked one of my best friends for prayer, later that day she sent me a worship song the Lord had put on her heart for me and it...
29 things I learned by 29

29 things I learned by 29

Today is my 29th birthday, here is all my infinite wisdom: 1. My mom was right, the older I get the less I know. 2. Life never goes as I plan, but if I stay the course, I often look around and realize I’m exactly where I was meant to be… somewhere more...
Mermaids

Mermaids

Six years ago I was walking around World Market picking up, examining, and putting down items in a daze. Life was so different then, I was a grad student getting my Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing—thinking about poetry, art, global political issues, mythology,...
Lavish Dinner Memories

Lavish Dinner Memories

Can you imagine a sleepover with all your best friends wrapped up in blankets, talking late into the night? Sounds cozy, right? Now put that scene under cafe lights, add good wine, donuts, the presence of God, a bon fire, and Greek food and you have a sense of how the...
What fuels your rest?

What fuels your rest?

Originally I wrote this blog in March of 2013. It was titled ‘Accomplishment-fed Rest’ and written in the thick of a season I felt I had to earn everything. [Find the original post below] In that time I had two God dreams. In one I was standing waist-deep...
When it’s time to go…

When it’s time to go…

Today is the end of an era. When I was 19 I was going to school in San Francisco and my boyfriend lived in LA. We wanted to spend the summer on the mission field and as adventurous (read stupid) young people we thought we’d just buy tickets to Africa and find people...
How the Holy Spirit Helps in Our Deserts

How the Holy Spirit Helps in Our Deserts

Hey friends– I wasn’t planning on posting a blog today because my week feels crazy busy. However, the Holy Spirit really put this on my heart. I believe there is someone(s) that needs this today. I wrote this poem in one of the most heart-wrenching seasons...
Welcome to Lavish!

Welcome to Lavish!

Welcome to Lavish Community, friends, I’m so glad you’re here! I made this video because I wanted to share my heart with you face-to-face. I’m crazy awkward on camera, drinking a glass of wine to calm down, have a wrinkly shirt on, and left a bit of...