Today hasn’t been as bad as I expected. Thought I write that pretty tentatively; there’s a whole lot of day left. But I was expecting to wake up pretty emotional. Instead, I woke up with gratitude in my heart. Gratitude for a peaceful night’s rest. Gratitude for waking up later than usual. Gratitude that today […]
Today, part 7.
Note: as I’ve been experiencing a lot of “one-year” anniversaries this month, I’ve been writing every morning about each day, re-reading old journal entries and just writing through the thoughts and feelings and experiences of each day. That’s why this is “part 7.” You can find a few over on my Instagram (@katie.j.rose). Thank you […]
abiding is enough.
Excerpts from meditations on psalm 130: Four months ago, after brunching with friends old and new and opening up, perhaps for the first time, about what I was going through physically (I had just been to the ER a few days before), I went to church. Church in this season has been a safe place. […]
this is what He meant.
“what you spoke is now unfolding” —elevation worship, Fullness Will you believe that of this season? That was his question to me, driving to work this morning, singing and eyes flooding with tears, yet somehow (miraculously) not streaming and blinding me. Will you believe it? I Voxered a friend later in the day and almost […]
this small forever
It’s been 9 months since I last entered this space, 9 months since I released words out into the world. And I’m not quite sure where to begin again, but my word for the year is “release,” so I think that includes writing something that makes it past margin-scribbles, notes, and journal-pages. 6 of those […]
Remaining Uprooted
I didn’t expect it to hurt this much: the leaving. the last-time-to-see this or that person. the last drives on intolerably bumpy roads that I’ve taken anyway. the last glimpses of once-green fields beginning to brown under the summer sun. I’ve been watching these fields for years now, through the sowing and growing and flooding […]