Author: thompsonsix

It’s been quiet on my end. No words. I feel like I’m no longer able to fully process the pain all around me. My mind is a jumbled mess as I watch the chaos currently unfolding in the world. I thought 2020 was rough, but it doesn’t hold a candle to 2021 for our family. […]

As a culture, I’d say we try to hide physical scars. But we all have them. My arm still has a faint scar from that time I pulled a mirror over on myself as a toddler. And my chin most certainly has a scar from that skateboarding accident in third grade. Some scars tell a […]

In our time overseas, we lived among a people with a rich history as nomadic shepherds. Still today, they tend sheep in the rural areas of the country and take them to pasture in the mountain grasslands during the summer months. The Bible soars to life in this context of shepherding and sheep. I will […]

I’ve come to see healing a little differently these days. I read the gospels, see all the times in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John when Jesus healed those he encountered. I’m keenly aware when the pastor is teaching from a passage about a paralytic, one who talked to Jesus, packed up his mat, the one […]

They used to tell me I look just like him . . . a spitting’ image. Some still say it. Do you know how hard it is for a little girl to wrap her head around looking just like her dad? I spent many years wondering how in the world that works, when he is […]

I needed the reminders that I heard in church yesterday . . . from the words in the songs we sang to the declaration of the Word. “I won’t bow down to idols,I’ll stand strong and worship You.And if it puts me in the fire,I’ll rejoice ’cause You’re there too.I won’t be formed by feelings,I […]

I would not have freely chosen this particular script that the Lord has written for our lives. And today I’m really feeling that. This past month has been something else. Sometimes I handle the twists and turns, ups and downs, with patience and grace–tethering myself to the Lord and His Word. And sometimes, like today, […]

I’ll never forget the first time that I held each of our babies in my arms. A deep and fierce love rose up in me. I’m not an especially “lovey” person, but I do remember this overwhelming feeling of devotion that wanted to . . . Guard. Protect. Defend. I’ve been thinking back on those […]

I’ll never forget what it felt like to pack up my “few” suitcases, wait in the airport with my family, say my goodbyes, and board a plane headed to the middle of nowhere. Having never traveled to that part of the world, that’s certainly how it felt to me. I was 22 years old. It […]

Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately. I actually have a few posts sitting in my Drafts box. Words that I’ve started and stopped. Everything I try to write feels so heavy lately. But the truth is . . . I tend towards sadness. Have you ever seen […]