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|| Part Two || On January 1st of this year I was driving on the Baltimore beltway and the electronic signs over the highway (the ones that pre-covid were only used for traffic updates and emergency messages) were all sharing a brand-new message in bright orange letters: “New Year. Same Mission. Zero Deaths.” I did […]
“I must not have done enough, but I feel as though I have nothing more to give.” I want to be brief on this topic. This topic of giving everything but feeling that you have done nothing. So, I’ll start by observing dried lavender. I highly recommend keeping dried lavender on hand. For starters, not […]
My life is ordinary. In comparison to past seasons of my life and current seasons my friends find themselves in, my life is ordinary. I am captivated by the idea that, as Christians, our lives should look different, radical, even a little crazy. But here I am, stuck in ordinary time. I don’t mean this […]
I am familiar with being told “no.” I am familiar with rejection. Usually, a few weeks after an interview, in a well-crafted email designed to make me feel better, but most recently over the phone. After delivering the bad news, the man I had been in contact with throughout the application process said, “I know […]
// Marianna Schmiesing // I was talking to a friend recently, and he said, “We go to dark places when we’re by ourselves.” Now, he, like me, tends toward the melancholic. We wander into those dark places a little more frequently and a little more willingly than others. But I think wandering into the dark […]