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 | Dec 28, 2021 | Community and Discipleship, Miscellaneous Musings
Paul has been reminding us for the past couple-thousand years of how the Lord takes divided people and weaves us into one Body, His Church. He uses the term “the household of God” to describe us in the final verses of Ephesians 2, and it is His...
by Space Welch | Jul 6, 2021 | Community and Discipleship
My dear friend, Missy, was unabashedly weeping as she spoke of her precious mother. She told me how her mom doesn’t bemoan the future while she watches her husband’s lungs fill with scars, knowing she is sojourning into the path of a widow. Instead, she is...
by Space Welch | Apr 25, 2021 | Community and Discipleship
I once knew a family who thought of people like investments. They would “pour their lives out” for others, but didn’t know how to just be-friend them. It never felt safe or genuine with them. There were others in my life, however, who nourished me in...
by Space Welch | Apr 8, 2021 | Community and Discipleship, Intimacy with Christ
I received an email from my stepdad a couple of days ago which caused all of us recipients to start praying hard and fast. It said that my mom’s pacemaker had shifted and broke through her skin. As though it wasn’t enough that my mom, in her...
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...
