“Today I have a better understanding of the depths from which he arose, the strength it took to turn his life around and I am so proud of him.” By Trinity Robertson I remember sitting in ...
Tania Fiolleau’s Story of Survival and Redemption ” … I slipped back into prostitution. I started pimping girls and I had some penthouses going. I was selling girls to rappers, movie star...
“I had a hard time being vulnerable because I thought I was doing something bad or wrong by letting myself shine and be beautiful.” By Amelia Englemark | Twitter: @AmyEnglemark Since I wa...
“When does it get easier? I thought. What are we going to do?” By Chaunie Marie Brusie | I slowed down as I approached the stop sign during my early morning run, contemplating the two pat...
“Writing is a skill requiring practice and dreaming.” By Enuma Okoro | Twitter: @TweetEnuma Chimamanda Adichie with Enuma “It must be a skill, like fishing, to cast your net into a ...
[From Our Archives] When sometimes you don’t have words. By Erin Wilson | Twitter: @biscotti_brain I rely on words. I rely on words to make my way in the world. I use words to discover people...
On Hilary Clinton, my hair in Africa and starting a movement. by Tina Francis | Twitter: @teenbug ______________________________ ______________________________ So, I have a girl-crush on Hilary Clinto...
“As I began to allow God to heal my heart with His labels, I began to see beauty in Kylie’s death.” By Erica McNeal | Twitter: @toddanderica If years ago, God had revealed to me the trial...
“Restoring people, physically and socially, is Kingdom work.” By Kelley Johnson-Nikondeha | Twitter: @kelljnik Naaman is a Syrian commander. When he looks in the mirror one morning and sees a spot … ...
SEEKING EVE MONDAY Sometimes seeking + finding requires stepping out of the game. By Christina Crook Once a Yaletown-dwelling sophisticate, Steph Limage was known to frequent local Vancouver hotspot,...
” … I breathe in air that is thick with miracles. I keep my heart wide open to impossibilities, my eyes peeled for sudden glimpses of a greater reality.” By Shekinah Jacob This is n...
“The days when I have felt most fully, most gloriously, alive, those are the days when I have felt most beautiful.” By Sarah Bessey | Twitter: @sarahbessey It wasn’t my high school ...
“It was okay that I desired to run away; I just needed to figure out what exactly I was running away to.” By Ashley Mandanici | Twitter: @ashleymandanici Last weekend I ran away. I am not...
I believe when we choose to function in love, we choose to step out in courage and break walls of ignorance and indifference … By Stephanie Motz Skinner | Twitter: @stephmotz Sometimes, even th...
“I wanted to forget that I’d ever felt that momentary joy preceding the horrifying loss of my one and only pregnancy.” By Tara Rodden Robinson |Twitter: @tararodden When I went to church ...
“I desperately needed a mother, but found myself living in a very small town in my aunt’s driveway, sharing a camper trailer with my father.” By Daniela Schwartz | Twitter: @dannysc...
“We listen. We learn. We hear wisdom in the voice of the elders, and sometimes in the voices of children.” By Christi Walter I get to write about women who are being the change in their community and...
“When we grace a shared moment with our undivided attention and love, we create heartprints that can be carried with us, always.” By Stefanie Thomas | Twitter: @stefanie_nicole When I was...
Tales from the Parenting Trenches “Given how varied parents, children and contexts are, how could there be one best way to parent?” By Sabrina Connell | Twitter: @sabrinaconnell I had a f...
” … what began as an invitation to orchestrate my dad’s dream, has turned into an opportunity to shape my own.” By Katie Mogan Graham I spent the first twenty odd years of my life t...
“She came into the home with her arms crossed, defiantly gloomy, intimidatingly unfriendly.” By Musu Taylor-Lewis | Twitter: @mercycanada Have you ever watched a flower bloom? No, really ...
Taking time to rest may just be the most spiritual thing I do all week. By Claire De Boer | Twitter: @Britchic19 Last weekend I attended a conference called LifeWomen at my home church here in Surrey...
“Just a few weeks ago we had to call the police, because a mother was prostituting her own daughter.” By Danielle Strickland | Twitter: @djstrickland Mothers are amazing. At least that’s ...
“I know there is a Da Vinci in Rwanda and an Einstein in Mozambique waiting to burst free.” By Desiree Adaway | Twitter: @desireeadaway ______________________________ __ “You are cap...
“Ramona says the sadness inside is unbearable. Her childhood made her afraid of white people.” By Kisa MacDonald | Twitter: @kisamac You know what it’s like, when a little girl crie...
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin By Helen Burns | Twitter: @helenburns Last nigh...
[Archives] Join us online today by watching LifeWomen conference here live. Last night, we read out the SheLoves Manifesto together in a room with about 400 women. Talk about a Roar! We thought it wo...
“My tenderness, rawness, weakness and my vulnerability are, in fact, the birthplace of resurrection.” By Kelley Johnson-Nikondeha | Twitter: @kelljnik It all began as a normal visit, my p...
The Discourse of Thin: In the U.S. alone, up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder. By Natasha Files | Twitter: @natashafiles Today I want to acknowledge every w...
It’s time to quit measuring creativity as talent and celebrate the act of creating, instead. By Kathy Escobar | Twitter: @kathyescobar “God is heaven and art.” — 5-year old girl at ...
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