Whatever you’re doing & wherever you are…whether you’re working on Christmas, traveling, or at home…whether you’re celebrating alone, with a small group or a house brimming with family…
Bask in the meaning of the day. Love yourself. Love those around you.
Remember, here at my blog, you have a safe space. You can land here softly & be appreciated, encouraged & never judged.
Remember your worth. Come back often.
Merry Christmas!
Love,
Where there’s brokenness, there’s also hope. It’s been when I feel the most despair, loneliness, wandering…that I feel hope closest to me. Because in those moments there’s so much possibility of what can become.
…what can be better, what can repair, what can heal.
After my first marriage and the collapse of our world into a heap of ugliness, questions, and darkness a few years ago, it was a time of deep despair and great hope, all at once.
We all have brokenness. The more I write and receive feedback, the more I discover that there are others like me: people who’ve suffered, who’ve had their pieces shattered and have experienced real hurt that hits us right behind the knees, knocking us on our faces. I discover often and over and over that there are very few of us who haven’t been there.
Ann Voskamp writes with profound insight. This New York Times bestselling author is well-known for her books The Greatest Gift, Unwrapping the Greatest Gift, and the 60-week NYT bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. And she’s intimately acquainted with tragedy and brokenness.
Sharing our personal story brings healing. You can speak your story of an experience of deep hurt that has molded you in some way and affected who you are now. Whatever that experience looks like for you, let me encourage you to tell it in whatever way feels safest.
When I shared my story with you, my readers, it brought up a lot of ugly stuff I had been through. I typed through tears. But I felt compelled to write it and let it be “heard”. I write about redemption and healthy relationships and not-so-healthy ones. What makes you think I’m an authority to speak on those? Well, once you read my story, you had that answer.