Dear Me: Lines to The Person I Long to be
So here at halftime — who do you want to be, and what do you want to achieve?
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How to Reclaim the Broken Within You
August 17, 2015Liz.W When they broke the news, my world broke into a thousand fragments. They flew him in a coffin, face white as brazen snow. The warm dances of his fingertips once ruffling through my hair, his gentle soothing voices calming me to sleep, stopped short, and sudden. There wasn’t time for any goodbyes and the last story’s still hanging in…
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What God Does Behind Sufferings & Heartbreaks – {Healing of a Wounded Warrior}
December 15, 2017Liz.W Dear Wounded Warrior, You are strong. Stronger than you think you really are. You’re winning even when you think you’re losing, and sometimes, your healing might come through your tears, and your blessings might drip like the raindrops. Doesn’t He who bring you to the point of birth not bring forth the new and great within…
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A Recipe For Living Through Almost Anything — {From Births to Funerals, From Happy Days to Hospital Stays}
November 25, 2017Liz.W Life’s this giant potpourri — and I’m mixed as I walked into his funeral service. And into the Children’s Emergency Department months after. My obstetrician, he was merely 54. His heart had stopped pumping right on the ground his feet were still standing. Yeah, life’s that short — and we’ve gotta live with that fact…
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How You Can Be Soft Against The Harsh & Release Courage In Your Pain Through Your Praise
October 5, 2017Liz.W Life’s this walk through the storms, and rains, and hails and winds. And it’s the harsh that can sometimes scramble you thin, makes you wanna howl. Howl you may — long into the night, straight into your sleep. I have done that, been that, am that. With every pain and solitary battle we…
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How You’ve been made Complete & Whole — & You can Live Your Life Just Like That
Hey You, You who’ve walked with a bit of a limp and hobbled your way all through the night… We see you. And we want you. You’re gonna be alright. Promise. Remember the night of the death? You were 7, and your dad’s suddenly passed on, instantly passed out of this passage of life. You were…
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how you can fly today with perfect ease
March 11, 2017Liz.W It was the long runway that day… The runway that stretches long and far for the mass of plane to lift us up and off. We were passengers on the plane and I could feel the barrier to it all. There’s gravity to break and all those bondages to defy – if we’re meant to overcome in life,…
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Trust The Process
Trust the process…and the time it needs to take — Trust that the pain you experience today is the pain you will heal from tomorrow. Trust that out of the fractures and fragments of a broken dream will one day emerge a strong foundation. A restructure out of every ruin. And take God into the mix. Take the God…
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When You Feel Like You’ve Just Lost Your Greatest Connection
August 26, 2018Liz.W There are ladders in life — and people who promised to show you the way. There are mentors and leaders, pastors and fathers, bosses and connections — and a host of others whom you’ve banked your heart upon to lead you on in the way. There are supposedly ladders, and leaders in life, and steps that…
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LINKS on How to Love Like You’ve Never Been Hurt Before & What It Takes To Trust Again
When I listen ted talks such as Dolph Lundgren’s on the healing and forgiveness story of his childhood abuse, I’m moved by the pain he’d have suffered as a child, and challenged to stop that pain from bleeding and perpetuating into a person adult life. There’s a part of you that dies when you’re faced with a pain that…
