Editor’s Note: This is Tiffany’s first post to Wrecked as a regular contributor. I hope you’re as excited as we are to get to read her writing on a regular basis. Though she’s served in dozens of nations around the world, she’s about looking like Jesus in the every day. She strives to make her … Continue reading Glory To Glory, If I Allow It
When I was in college, I took a poetry class. My professor was a woman who carried as many poems around with her as there were political buttons pinned to her leather coat. With such a teacher, our poetry was less about gardens flecked with mid-morning sun, and more about the broken lines of sidewalk in … Continue reading I Carry Your Heart With Me
Defining ‘Matagalpa in My Life I searched for Matagalpa on Google last night. It was right after I saw today’s date, right after realizing June had begun. I counted the months then used my fingers to count the months. I was right the first time. Four months. I’ll be married in four months. I’ll have … Continue reading How To Determine If Your Life Is Privileged
As a typical child, I never wanted to go to bed. After a bedtime story and elongated conversations and organizing stuff animals, I’d say to my parents, “Just one more thing Mommy, just one more thing.” I thought that if I could just prolong the act of sleeping by a few more minutes, I’d have … Continue reading Just One More Thing
Yesterday, I ran for joy. Not for a race, time, fitness or some other noble pursuit; I ran for joy. Sort of like Forrest Gump; I just ran. After years of starts and stops, contemplative conversations during shared runs over the Flint Hills, and the refuge of running alone with a God I cannot see – … Continue reading Wrecking ball
My First Trip to Nicaragua I spent three months in the drab, dusty farming city of Esteli, Nicaragua in the fall of 2009. As one of the most important cigar-producing cities in the world, miles and miles of tobacco fields surround Esteli, but I was in the city when I met an American soldier. I … Continue reading Those Perfectly, Happily Content Christians
I am surrounded by, talking to, and working with Christians just about every single day. I often wonder if that’s turning me into a skeptic. Leave it to us for being known as the stingy ones by waiters everywhere (“more blessed to give”), for saying we’ll do something and then changing our minds a thousand … Continue reading When I See You, I’ll Probably Doubt You
My daughter Emily was in a wreck this past month. One moment life was happening as she planned, and the next moment, with a sick crunch of metal on metal, her car crumpled against another vehicle. Thankfully, everyone was OK. But when she got out of the car and began to take stock, questions filled … Continue reading When You’re In a Wreck
We were bringing back the location where vulnerable people spent their time. We wanted to revamp a place for people and ideas that wouldn’t be allowed in most churches. ‘Wrecked for the Ordinary’, we called it. Vulnerability was our goal. Our desire was painfully honest Christians willing to be true in all things – every struggle, every … Continue reading Why Wrecked?
