by Elisabeth | Mar 31, 2011 | businessy stuff, redemption, social justice, writing
I have been writing since I was eleven. I pecked out my first poem – about seagulls – on a typewriter in my grandmother’s den, and I didn’t look back. Deep down, way back then, I knew that words on a page would be my way of figuring out life, and if I were lucky, my...
by Elisabeth | Dec 10, 2010 | friendship, social justice
One of my best friends in the entire world is, as I write, more than likely meeting her new daughter on the other side of the ocean.Everything about this amazes me. I remember a conversation she and I had many years ago when she told me that she had a feeling she and...
by Elisabeth | Oct 19, 2010 | faith, redemption, social justice
I have some friends who are in the process of adopting their second child from Africa (they have two biological children and one child from Ethiopia). They are waiting on the court date of their daughter from Burkina Faso. They have had this court date postponed two...
by Elisabeth | Aug 14, 2010 | social justice
I have a friend who has wanted something for a very long time. She has surrendered her desire and has been transformed and healed and filled up and faithful all in the laying down. And now, she is mothering two sweet little girls for one week as part of an amazing...
by Elisabeth | Jul 24, 2010 | parenting, social justice
A few things have converged in my son’s life over the past couple months. Back in the spring, he and I began reading Take Your Best Shot by then-nine-year-old Austin Gutwein, the story of a boy who decided he didn’t want to wait until he was all grown up to do...
by Elisabeth | May 19, 2010 | redemption, social justice
I have noticed the theme of redemption running through my life more and more the past few years, and specifically surrounding one specific challenging season in my life that lasted 441 days and that wrapped up almost five years ago.I am living with none of the bad...
