Learning to Ask for What You Need

It is difficult to ask for what we want or what we think we need. Asking makes us uncomfortable, sometimes makes us feel guilty or ashamed. Asking is one of most vulnerable things we can do. Yet, we see throughout the gospels that Jesus asked all the time. Particularly, he asked questions to challenge hisContinue reading “Learning to Ask for What You Need”

Book Review: Teach Us to Want

Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith Why I picked up this book: This book is authored by Jen Pollock Michel of the Redbud Writer’s Guild in which I am a member, so I try to support these women as I am able. Additionally, I thought, “A book about desire andContinue reading “Book Review: Teach Us to Want”

Coffee Talk: This is What I Want. What do you Want?

One of the books I am reading is, Teach us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith, by fellow Redbud, Jen Pollock Michel. This book interested me because I have grown quite uncomfortable with my wants. At almost every turn, I find how selfish and self-serving my wants are. In most Christian environmentsContinue reading “Coffee Talk: This is What I Want. What do you Want?”