Oh, dear wordsmith - how I pray your voice is prophetic. Thank you for your heart, and for sharing that with us in ways that enable and ennoble. You are an enormous drop of grace to all blessed to read you, hear you, and know you.
Sarah Girl - I'm probably your mom's age - and I have to admit that for a while I kind of poo-pooed this younger generation of women writers appearing in my inbox. But I gotta tell ya that brave women like you, and Cole Arthur Riley, and of course dear RHE have rocked my world in this second half of life journey of mine. Thank you for going deep and leaning into the really real - and helping those of us shattered by years of fundamentalism to come squinting out into the light.
You have no idea how much I needed to hear this exact message tonight. It's so easy to sink into that old familiar pit of despair from years of chronic flare ups and sudden new, scary symptoms. The gaslighting that lives rent-free in my brain from years of trying and failing to get an accurate medical diagnosis renders my utterly paralyzed when I actually need to get checked out. I'm so tired of advocating, waiting, and getting fruitless answers. Being ignored, dismissed. But I have to get up and do it again anyway. I can see that Jesus is making a way. I know that there is still hope, and it lives within me. But good God. Do I want what it's going to take? Probably. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you for helping me keep going on this spoonie marathon.
Thank you Sarah. Your words helped me as I sit in my sadness today for more lives lost in the madness of these times. May enough of us answer yes! to your important question.
Mam, this is an entire word. Ase’ and amen. Lord, in your mercy, May we say yes to participating with you in being well. Even flubbing it, even having to do it over and over again, may our hearts say yes to this communal invitation and may the way of our being join in alignment. Thank you, Sarah, for the gift of Love channeling through your pen and coursing through your body. The sacredness of your words and writing is like a balm in Gilead.
I'm a teacher in Nashville. We are hurting right now. There is a lot of fear at work right now and anger and frustration... we want so badly to be well it hurts. Thank you for your words. They are helping me get through my day.
I think you helped me understand why I hate "them" preaching so much -you know singling out that current group of people that's responsible for all the ills of the world? The louder I blame them the less I have to admit that I've lost hope myself.
Oh, dear wordsmith - how I pray your voice is prophetic. Thank you for your heart, and for sharing that with us in ways that enable and ennoble. You are an enormous drop of grace to all blessed to read you, hear you, and know you.
Sarah Girl - I'm probably your mom's age - and I have to admit that for a while I kind of poo-pooed this younger generation of women writers appearing in my inbox. But I gotta tell ya that brave women like you, and Cole Arthur Riley, and of course dear RHE have rocked my world in this second half of life journey of mine. Thank you for going deep and leaning into the really real - and helping those of us shattered by years of fundamentalism to come squinting out into the light.
Mona, hospice chaplain and spiritual director. 🌻
You have no idea how much I needed to hear this exact message tonight. It's so easy to sink into that old familiar pit of despair from years of chronic flare ups and sudden new, scary symptoms. The gaslighting that lives rent-free in my brain from years of trying and failing to get an accurate medical diagnosis renders my utterly paralyzed when I actually need to get checked out. I'm so tired of advocating, waiting, and getting fruitless answers. Being ignored, dismissed. But I have to get up and do it again anyway. I can see that Jesus is making a way. I know that there is still hope, and it lives within me. But good God. Do I want what it's going to take? Probably. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you for helping me keep going on this spoonie marathon.
Thank you Sarah. Your words helped me as I sit in my sadness today for more lives lost in the madness of these times. May enough of us answer yes! to your important question.
Yes! We want to be well 🙏
ngl I kinda want to put "wrestle hope like a habit" in big letters on my wall or a T-shirt or something.
So well said, dear Sarah. I am grateful your heart pours out words we can say "me too" to.
Grateful for this. Wish I had read it before I vented on instagram but glad I’m reading it now 😬🥹- gabby
I’m going to say yes even when what I fear most is hope dying because nothing changes.
Such timely and beautiful words. Praying we all say yes to wellness and do the work necessary to make it so.
Mam, this is an entire word. Ase’ and amen. Lord, in your mercy, May we say yes to participating with you in being well. Even flubbing it, even having to do it over and over again, may our hearts say yes to this communal invitation and may the way of our being join in alignment. Thank you, Sarah, for the gift of Love channeling through your pen and coursing through your body. The sacredness of your words and writing is like a balm in Gilead.
This a word fitly spoken. I'm Pentecostal enough to know that some principalities need pulling down.
You are such a gift to me, to us here and to this world.
You give voice to the longings of our hearts. Thank you!
I'm a teacher in Nashville. We are hurting right now. There is a lot of fear at work right now and anger and frustration... we want so badly to be well it hurts. Thank you for your words. They are helping me get through my day.
This. Just this. Thank you for this!
May I just "wrestle hope like a habit" starting today.
I think you helped me understand why I hate "them" preaching so much -you know singling out that current group of people that's responsible for all the ills of the world? The louder I blame them the less I have to admit that I've lost hope myself.
As always beautifully said. Thank you
Thank you so much for these words. They have touched my heart. In the despair I feel and in a place of sorrow, I pray that prayer with you. 🙏