Catch up on the prior installments of this adventure here and here… “Does this feel like the belly of the whale?” the voice said in my head. I knew what the voice meant. In the book of the Bible that bears his name, the prophet Jonah is told by God to go tell the people at Nineveh that God knows what bad things they’re doing, and ain’t cool with it. Jonah knows this news will…
Find part 1 here… The door handle on the bathroom turned uselessly in my hand. I jiggled it, I pushed it, I pounded on the heavy wooden door. Nothing happened. I was trapped in the bathroom of my office for 13 hours. It was 6 p.m. on a Wednesday night. The cleaning crew had been in the office the night before. All my coworkers had gone home. My boss didn’t come in until 7 a.m.…
I’m spending 52 weeks exploring things that make me beautiful. You should do the same. 🙂 To find out more about this series, click here! That’s the first photo I took on my first solo trip to Europe in the summer of 2010. I went to London by myself for a week in July (the hottest week of the summer – of course) and it was the greatest, scariest, most enlightening journey I’ve ever taken.…
I really don’t want every post on here to be all, “Woe is me, I’m self-employed and worrying about my money running out…” I realize that having the luxury of pursuing this path is one that few people have, and that I’m even getting the chance to try living my dream is something hardly anyone gets to do. But the last few days have been really rough, as the end of my savings account looms…
It’s been a rough day or two here on Ye Olde Faith Journey. I wrote the text below for my church’s Lent devotional last year, and post it here today as a reminder to myself. Perhaps it’s a reminder you needed today too. Psalm 22 1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? 2 My God, I cry out by…