by Emily Wierenga | Jul 24, 2013 | #imperfectprose, camping, compromise, doubt, faith, gospel, hard, imperfect prose on thursdays, love, tenting, theology
I’m not sure when tenting got hard.We go every summer with our blue Coleman tent and our blow-up mattress, our matches and our firewood and we drive the west with its snowy peaks and its turquoise lakes. Black bear sightings on the side of the road and cars... by Emily Wierenga | Jul 17, 2013 | #imperfectprose, blogging, camping, God, homeless, hungry, hurt, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jesus, pain, street people
Kasher is chanting on the top of Trent’s shoulders, and it sounds like a monk’s song. We’re camping at Snaring River where we tented back when I was 39 weeks with the same boy. There are no flush toilets here. No hot showers. Just the bare smell of nature,... by Emily Wierenga | Jun 19, 2013 | anger, devotion, fear, hurt, imperfect prose on thursdays, listening, loyalty, marriage, silence, submission
(by Brandee Shafer; paintings by Connie Kottman)When our marriage counselor Adam recommended a process of communication called reflective listening, I was raring to go. Confident, too, because–if I had a Native American name–it would be The Communicator. I... by Emily Wierenga | Jun 5, 2013 | Brene Brown, Elizabeth Marshall, imperfect prose on thursdays, link-up, meme, poetry, prose, redemption, vulnerability
Welcome to Imperfect Prose! We are a humble community of people who meet once a week to write about redemption. This week’s host is Elizabeth W. Marshall of WynneGraceAppears.com. We are little communities of me’s, I’s and selves. And sticking our feet into the... by Emily Wierenga | May 29, 2013 | bible, burned, church, control, devotions, evangelicalism, imperfect prose on thursdays, motherhood, prodigal magazine, religion, self, the me generation
…For a while, I became so burned by the church that I decided I would take things into my own hands.I would not get hurt again. I would make the Bible what I wanted it to be and I would apply only the parts of it that I wanted to believe in. I would play god.... by Emily Wierenga | May 15, 2013 | book launch, children, conception, daughter, due date, imperfect prose on thursdays, Jesus, mom in the mirror, pregnancy, virtual baby shower, visions
Welcome to Imperfect Prose on Thursdays, where we celebrate redemption! Please link up your posts below. A year ago, Trent and I both received a dream, on the same day, of another child joining our family. A girl, to be exact. Around the same time, last year, I...