Category: Discernment
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We Wear Our Knowledge Like a Shell
When preparing a collection of my work, I received a cover draft from designer Martha Chlipala which featured a chambered nautilus. This led me down a deep, wonderful rabbit hole learning about their distant ancient relatives, the ammonoids, and cephalopods more generally. It also brought me back to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.’s famous poem, “The…
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It Hurts to Grow
After God leads the people Israel up out of slavery in Egypt, they are full of gratitude. However, what comes next isn’t easy, and they sometimes wish they could go back. When we are living through something new, whether a blessing or a challenge (or both!), we may also struggle to accept our circumstances and…
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Ways Will Open
In Parker Palmer’s book on discernment, Let Your Life Speak, he writes of a time when he was struggling with his vocation, hoping and praying that “way would open” as Quaker tradition teaches. A wise elder suggested that often we find our way forward not from a clearly illuminated next step but from closures behind…
Hannah C Brown 