the blue door

Blue Door’s First Trauma Workshop What a joy to discover that I am safer than I once believed. This weekend marked a meaningful milestone for Blue Door—our very first trauma workshop. What began as an idea, a burden, and a quiet “yes” became a room filled with women willing to show up and lean in…

                                                                    The plane just lifted off the ground, lifting my feet from the only United soil I’ve ever stood on to drop me in a foreign nation. New York to Paris, Paris to Nairobi, Nairobi to Kenya to go and be the light- to be fruitful and multiply. I still get mad sometimes…

I strapped the grandbaby into her car seat, struggling around her fluffy pink dress. As soon as I closed the door I started grumbling. “I’m not doing this anymore. I can’t stand going to church and getting there right on time. We’re never late for work. We’re not late for other things….” Two miles down…

I was in my twenties when I worked at a nursing home that changed my life. I was an angry young woman still bemoaning my parents’ divorce and all my childhood disappointments. Determined to never let anyone hurt me again and to become my own woman, I had moved eight hours from home to a…

In 1 Samuel 15:23, Solomon delivered a message from God when Saul refused to carry out God’s precise instructions with the Amelakites: “obedience is better than sacrifice.” Witchcraft is defined as “sorcery, magic, communication with the devil, or an irresistible fascination or influence” (Webster’s). We seem to have an irresistible fascination with being independent and…

          At the pinnacle of Peter’s Christian walk, he preached the sermon in the Upper Room that not only ushered in the Holy Ghost, but also pierced the hearts of 3000 listening souls and brought them to salvation. The portrait we have of Peter’s life includes both sides of the coin – his mistakes and…