heather choate davis

Who are you?

This is a question I get asked more and more lately. Who are you? How did you get here? Why are people listening to you? One retreat director, who—based on multiple recommendations—was engaging me as the lead speaker at a week-long event for 2017, actually spelled out the confusion,” I mean, you’re not a pastorContinue reading “Who are you?”

Surely

“Surely, God’s love includes people who can’t bear it.” —Wendell Berry

In the wake of despair

It arrived in a Facebook message from my husband this morning. I saw that it was a link. Clicking thru I had the surreal experience of reading about a murder-suicide—the sort of thing that happens somewhere else, to people with lives you can’t quite imagine. But this was the story of a man I knew.Continue reading “In the wake of despair”

Paradox

I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Mother Teresa

Kissing Babies

This was the title of my second book—my first novel— which was supposed to be published 17 years ago. It wasn’t. After the success of Baptism by Fire, my agent was eager to have me write, “more books like that.” I wasn’t clear on how I was supposed to write more books about my daughterContinue reading “Kissing Babies”