Living in the joy of the beautiful mess

Living in the joy of the beautiful mess

Photo Credit: Charlize Perrault Mess is a theme in my life, and therefore also in my barefoot preaching. I think I return to the theme because mess challenges me so deeply. While I grew, I found relief in order, comfort in control, rest in simplicity. And I wandered...
Trusting what is to take us where we need to go

Trusting what is to take us where we need to go

Photo Credit: Marc Perrault Trust wasn’t the lesson I was expecting when my partner planned a surprise anniversary weekend away. Seventeen years later, we returned to the Cypress Hills where we stayed as newlyweds. The lodgepole pines appear not to have changed as...
Yes.  Yes with my whole heart.

Yes.  Yes with my whole heart.

Yes to the puppy, the walks, the cuddles, and the joy of our kids delighting in her. Yes. I’m trying to say yes more often these days, with more reckless abandon.  It is a dangerous word.  Yes tempts me, commits me, holds me.  It binds me.  And it is the only word...