Making Space
We live in a post-Freudian, self-help, pop-psychology saturated era, where culture is obsessed with diagnosing and “fixing” the layers of our inner-world, to ar...
Author: Jackie Bradley
Part two: Affirmation Overcoming the Three P’s
Have you ever experienced a moment of overcoming where you were genuinely pleased with yourself? Where you were proud of your accomplishment? Too often we look ...
Overcoming the Three P’s
There’s no point in sugarcoating it, the three p’s have been like slow-working poison in my life. They have led to all sorts of destructive thinking, choices, a...
The Necessity of Messiness
Where are all my fellow recovering perfectionists at?? This one is for us today! Some of my words might make your skin crawl a little, but I believe in us and o...
Lent: An Open Invitation
Rather, it is in the spirit of unity among believers that I extend an invitation to my friends and readers to participate in Lent this year. Because Scripture i...
The Imperative Nature of Cross-Pollination
Gardening and growing green things (including house plants) has never really been one of my skill sets. This fact has been a source of great frustration. One of...
Friendship: Drawing Attention to the Familiar
Friendship. For the first time in my life I’m recognizing what a loaded word it is. Like love, it’s a word that triggers a million different memories, expectati...
Invest in Change: It’s Worth the Effort
I’ve surprised myself with my attitude and ambition for 2022. Maybe I’m fired up over all the struggles, crises, and chaos—worldwide and in my small, personal r...
The Best Laid Plans: Finding Goodness in Inconvenience
My husband and I have been in the remodeling business for more than a decade, and we have learned first-hand how unpredictable the renovation process can be. Re...
A Letter to Fear
Dear Fear, I know you’ve got good reason to be here and I know why you’re shouting so loud. The case you’ve presented, the argument you’ve made, it’s vali...