by Space Welch | Feb 10, 2024 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ
A couple of days ago I babysat Laura, who I’d barely seen since we returned from LA and MS a couple of weeks ago. Simon and Alycia had gotten sick, so I avoided them and they avoided everyone. When I came to pick up my 10-month old grandbaby, as soon as she...
by Space Welch | Nov 18, 2023 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace
Sometimes I read something and it feels like a threaded needle, piercing through different parts of my life and thoughts, pulling them taut and binding them all together. This morning it was Psalm 78. In three different parts of this Psalm it exposes different...
by Space Welch | May 19, 2023 | Celebration and Wonder, Miscellaneous Musings, Uncategorized
Michael Yaconelli once said (before he went to go hang out with Jesus), “Sameness is the cemetery where our distinctiveness is buried.” (Messy Spirituality; pg. 79). Recently, I got to hang out with a friend who I hadn’t seen in a couple months...
by Space Welch | May 1, 2023 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace, Uncategorized
I raced home to tell you about my friend, Elizabeth Yasdani. Perhaps you know her by her exuberant smile. Perhaps you know about her because of her battle with “Stage 12” cancer (I believe that’s what she’s called it). Usually when I am...
by Space Welch | Sep 21, 2022 | Celebration and Wonder, Community and Discipleship, Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace
I stood on the outside of my soap table, crying out for God’s mercy with a friend, who had come to my booth for refuge from the turmoil in her soul. She, among many others, had just witnessed the unmistakable sound of a massive car accident just outside the Paw...
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...