What I want to share is something I’ve come to appreciate with words.

It is called Word Shift. What takes place? A word shift happens when you take a familiar word, and notice its pattern of usage that holds you in some kind of stuck place, where life or thoughts become a little foggy or dim because the word has some trigger or effects you in some way that isn’t helpful. Sometimes the word has a feeling of resistance as well.

The offering is a Word Shift. This has been helpful for me—it brings in a newness, a light, a clearing of cloudiness…

Hello Friends!

How are you doing? I hope you are having some time to bask in the Lord and are noticing His graceful presence in your life. We certainly live in a time of tensions and can feel the pull in both directions. We may agree and disagree with the tensions and they can make us feel uncomfortable. I’d like to share with you some of the tensions within my own place of being. More so encourage you…

Hello Friends!

I thank you for joining me on this blog journey. I thought I’d share if you may be wondering why the name “dwelling places” keeps appearing and why the title of my reflections. It is in recognizing the patterns of my daily beginnings. Often I find myself waking and feeling like today’s hard. And asking, how am I going to get going, or get through it? Do you feel this struggle?

Hello Friends! Today, I am beginning a new venture. As I start on this new path of blogging, I honestly admit that beginning something new is often exciting and intimidating. These two adjectives are the propellers spinning as I lift off with writing a blog…