by Space Welch | Aug 8, 2022 | Celebration and Wonder, Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace
Many of you may not know it, but I sometimes struggle with depression. I have learned, over the course of a lifetime, and a quarter-century of being led by the Holy Spirit, how to fight it, but also how to spot the warning flares in the road. One flaming torch of...
by Space Welch | Dec 19, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Miscellaneous Musings
I sat across the table from a friend who was both rejoicing and grieving, as only a Christian can do. She had brought me a gift, a Christmas present, to commemorate our meal and our friendship. I reached into the bag, pulling out a beautiful mug. On it, surrounded...
by Space Welch | Oct 29, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Miscellaneous Musings
I used to read Ecclesiastes and scratch my head. Solomon was just a little too wise for me, and his melancholy nature didn’t resonate with my desire to see a cup half-full. But after this clarifying past year and a half, I am starting to understand the book a...
by Space Welch | Oct 27, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings
We drove the Kancamagus Highway in early October, prime time for the spectrum of Fall colors… but it wasn’t. The colors were beginning to pop, but they hadn’t hit peak yet. In fact, many of the colors had yet to change. Smiles kept remarking on...
by Space Welch | Aug 26, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings
Lately, my brain has been feeling like a bouncy ball someone unleashed on the inner walls of my skull. It’s not pleasant. In fact, today I was feeling snappy and unkind in my heart because of the anxious feeling in my brain. I think I might be trying to spin...
by Space Welch | Mar 25, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Community and Discipleship, Intimacy with Christ, Redemption and Grace
A dear friend passed into Glory the Wednesday before I loaded a plane for Alaska. Her funeral was a couple of days after we landed back home. A silver urn sat among brilliantly colored flowers, and a collage of vibrant photographs, symbolic of a life lived...