My mom was a concert-level pianist as a child but gave up practice for boys & fun in her teens. In her 50s she returned to the piano with a vengeance, taking endless music theory and composition classes determined to unleash her own creativity. She was convinced that if she just knew a little moreContinue reading “Don’t Go There Child”
Tag Archives: Grace
What Does Liberation Look Like?
There is a preconception in our culture that to be a person of faith means to live a small, tight, narrow life, but that has not been my experience. Far from it. In truth, the deeper I go, the freer I get, until all there is are the gifts God has given me and theContinue reading “What Does Liberation Look Like?”
The Unqualified Yes
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification,Continue reading “The Unqualified Yes”
The Gift is not Grace Kelly
Every time I teach, I learn. So it was this weekend when I was in the middle of a talk on Loaded Words. I was telling the story of a dear friend who had come to faith about the same time as me. She had fallen in love with our church community and served itContinue reading “The Gift is not Grace Kelly”
Enter Here
Twenty years ago I fell though a crack in my spirit and into a world that is strange and wonderful and ceaselessly upending. And ever since then, I’ve been trying to help other people like me find an entrance. That personal mission has led me to write 5 books and several hundred blog posts; toContinue reading “Enter Here”
Heather Choate Davis 