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as in all of life, grief and joy can be so closely mingled. i feel this reality deeply when i hear the joyful news of a friend’s pregnancy. the immediate excitement—followed by the pang of sorrow.

Entering the doctor's office for another day of tests, ultrasounds, and fertility treatments, I walk past what feels like a cruel parade of women with healthy, rounded bellies. Each one is a beautiful story of life: a gift, a miracle, a blessing.

a liturgy is simply a prayer—one written for personal or corporate worship, intended to prompt communion with God. liturgies can provide a structure for our prayers, a starting point to give rise to deeper communication and intimacy with the Lord.

home: for me it’s everywhere and nowhere. i took piano lessons at age six from a Korean teacher outside of Soul. i learned to read in day school in Germany; learned to ski too on snowy Austrian slopes, gangly and shaky-legged at ten. i graduated high school on a small Japanese island. had my heart stolen by tiny hands and big smiles in a small red-dirt town outside of Kampala.

i know for many, Mother’s day might press on the bruise of a loss, a longing, or an unmet expectation. each woman who reads this is likely in a different stage of life, motherhood, or relationship with their moms—some rejoicing and some grieving.

april was filled with so many beautiful joys. big ones like being reunited with the dearest friends (and their baby!!) and watching one of my very best friends get married—all in the same weekend. and it’s been filled with small joys too like neighborhood blooms and reading outside the cafe by our house.

i imagine somehow

i look around and see pain,

did some things linger?

our neighborhood is dressed in its finest spring attire and it makes our daily walks feel decked with a little bit of magic ✨

✨ moments from March:

“where are you God?”

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“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith – more previous than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire – may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

1 Peter 1:3-4

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