A Few More Both/And-y Things

some link love

Oct 07, 2023

I’ve shared words about the both/and-y things of life before, as well as the challenges - and unexpected blessings - that show up as we wrestle with embracing paradox.

Here’s some both/and-y themed link love:

When the relationships and institutions you thought would last forever aren’t accessible in the same ways they have been, you learn to cling to the One who doesn’t change.
Lore Ferguson Wilbert
S A Y A B L E

But, in true “both/and” tradition, there have been some beautifully timed joys, too…

Jenni Baden Howard

Life Stories.

Tiramisu at Midnight.

This week’s header comes with apologies to food writer Emiko Davies, whose wonderful Tortellini at Midnight is on our kitchen bookshelf. (And more about Emiko, and reading cookbooks like memoirs, in a moment). But back to tiramisu. “The name says it all. Tirami-su means “pick me up”. It means that if you’re feeling down, listless … this dessert will lighten your spir…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 12 comments · Jenni Baden Howard

In so many ways mine is a privileged and indeed blessed life. It’s both a good and a hard life. Far from perfect. Far from terrible. It is a precarious gift. A hurting hopeful human gift of a life.

Julie Hester

Writing in Company

On Perfectability and Precarity

Welcome to Writing in Company. Each week I share some words and a writing prompt, meant to be jumping-off points for you to write about what matters. Use the prompts however you like—to journal, to d…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 20 comments · Julie Hester

My soul might be sinking, but God is the one who dives “down,”
chasing the drowning…
But Jesus knows there is no power that is not, finally, love.
Beth Felker Jones
Church Blogmatics

Until next time,

Becky