by Leah Perrault | Mar 28, 2024
Years ago, musician Audrey Assad[1] released “I Shall Not Want” on an album called Fortunate Fall. She had discovered a Litany of Humility and set it to music. At a concert she did in my home church, she told us that she wrote it so that she would be inspired to pray...
by Leah Perrault | Dec 7, 2023
I have been sitting in my living room in the dark evenings lit up by the Christmas Tree. I am fumbling with a fiddle, coaxing my fingers to play the notes of folk tunes and Christmas carols. This fall, the world seems particularly weary, beauty weighted with a...
by Leah Perrault | Apr 20, 2020
Undone is my least favourite part of pretty much everything, but I am especially aware of this discomfort in myself when I watch fairy tales with my kids. I love the set up, the falling in love with the characters, the introduction of a challenge and adventure. But...
by Leah Perrault | Dec 11, 2018
Dwelling is a strange concept. It’s a place and it sounds like an action: the relevance to Advent is both. The blanket fort that took over my home last Sunday was the perfect incarnation of both the noun and the verb. It was a space for the kids to occupy, at the...