Hi friends, this blog is moving platforms!
Follow me over to racheldevenishford.substack.com
I’ll be writing a longer form piece each week on fridays, as well as publishing monday poetry and midweek inspiration.
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I’m writing to let you know that registration for my course Writing From the Heart (Reading on mobile? Click here), closes in two days! You are warmly invited!
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Dear Wild Seeds,
It's happening!
People have been signing up for their spaces in Writing From the Heart, and I'm starting to get the happy, anticipatory feelings that come when you know something is going to be good.
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Hi friends,
I’ve been writing newsletters and Instagram posts about my new course, Writing from the Heart, for the last week, and it has just occurred to me that despite all the places I’ve written, I didn’t include this blog! What???
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The thing about where I live is that it is the most incredibly beautiful place, and also you have to learn to like critters, or at least co-exist with them.
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It has been raining for days. Streams flow from the mountain tops and flood the roads. So far, Shekina Garden (next to the river) hasn’t flooded again.
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I wake up and have to choose.
On my last post, Dee commented that motherhood is more of an offering than an investment. Whew. That is a mouthful. An offering.
I wake up and have to choose. To consume? To invest, strings attached? Or to hold my hands out: an offering?
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“We have a lot of kids,” I say to Chinua after we pick Kai up. The car is full of them, and this is so literal, in the space sense. Our car is full of our family.
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Umbrellas are wonderful because they show up in unexpected places. This is what I thought to myself the other night, as Chinua and I were driving home from a date that didn’t go badly but didn’t go well,
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I began this blog seventeen years ago and named it Journey Mama because of a dream. I felt stuck and needed to travel in words and memories, needed to journey even if I wasn’t physically going anywhere.
Things change, and they stay the same.
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:: part seven ::
You will find that you can do the same- you can move toward others in love, even knowing that you can’t always understand all of what they are going through or what they decide, knowing it is not your job to understand everything. That is the work that they do with God in their own souls.
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I have been diving, diving down, but I am emerging, coming up from the depths.
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:: part 6 ::
This kind of knowing helps with the ongoing grief that comes from being a human creature in this world.
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