By: redtentwomen April 4, 2021April 5, 2021 Monthly ThemesMonthly Themes, Theme to consider: The Last StrawLeave a Comment

April Theme to Consider: The Last Straw

For the month of April we will be considering the theme, “The Last Straw”. Join us by hosting a Red Tent Dinner with some women in your own community and sharing stories provoked by this theme. Or, simply follow along with us this month.

Our Story

The idea for Red Tent Living started more than a decade ago with a book by the same name. The Red Tent, the best-selling historical fiction novel by Anita Diamont, retold the story of Dinah from the book of Genesis.

Writing Guidelines

Red Tent Living is a community of women from across the world reading, writing, reflecting, and responding to one another daily as we reframe what it means to be feminine. We welcome you to join in the conversation and submit your own work!

Hosting a Red Tent Dinner

Purpose: Once a month gatherings for 6-8 women that include enjoying a meal together and taking time to share pieces of their lives with one another. It is a place where believers and non believers in Jesus can experience community as they find connection in unexpected ways with one another.

Rise and Shine

By: redtentwomen April 16, 2021April 15, 2021

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, Warrior, Wholeheartedempathy, Fight-flight-freeze, injustice, Jean Masukevich, polyvagal theory, Powerlessness, Voice6 Comments

I am hypersensitive and therefore unable to take in much news or social media. As much as I want to be educated about what is happening in the world, I have learned that the best way I can be a part of the solution to the problems that are breaking open all around is to…

Cling to Hope

By: redtentwomen April 14, 2021March 24, 2021

Faith, Intentional Living, relationshipsbreakthrough, Death of a Parent, Divorce, Faith, Grief, Hope, Kenda Haines1 Comment

My heart felt heavy. My lungs felt empty. My mind couldn’t form a coherent thought. The loss was more than I had ever known. The hurt resonated deep within my soul.

Pandemic-Era Parenting

By: redtentwomen April 12, 2021April 11, 2021

Day to Day, Faith, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, The Home, Warrior2020, COVID-19, Faith, Mallory Redmond, Mothering, persevering, quarantineLeave a Comment

It was dinnertime on a Sunday, which means the countdown to bedtime had started a little early and was slightly more enthusiastic than normal. I had been craving cauliflower for a while, which isn’t something I’m particularly proud of, but here we were. My husband and two daughters looked on as I picked up the…

Taking a Tumble

By: redtentwomen April 9, 2021March 24, 2021

Day to Day, Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesCOVID-19, falling down stairs, Haley Wiggers, Healing, Life Change1 Comment

Finally. After weeks of pain shooting up my spine and into my neck, I was finally getting some relief. I had been okay with makeshift back-cracking mechanisms—over my desk chair, bending over with my arms pushing against the wall until I felt a crrrriiiickkk go up my back—but that could not go on any longer.…

The Last Straw

By: redtentwomen April 7, 2021March 29, 2021

Day to Day, Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesBella J. Rockman, God's strength, Junice Rockman, last straw, stress2 Comments

If you’ve ever experienced pain that cut so deeply and despair that lingered so persistently that you didn’t know if you could get past it, perhaps you know what “The Last Straw” feels like. There are situations in your life that you can’t seem to shop away, sleep away, sex away, work away, drink away…

Timid Steps

By: redtentwomen April 6, 2021March 29, 2021

Art, Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsCare, Heather Medley, Hope, LossLeave a Comment

overwhelming loss…the safe care of anotherhope awakening Heather Medley is a woman who is learning to be present and kind to herself and to the people she loves. She is drawn to engage her world with hope of restoration and redemption and gets to do this professionally as a therapist. She loves deep conversations over…

Atlanta

By: redtentwomen April 5, 2021April 3, 2021

Faith, Monthly Themes, WarriorAimee, Atlanta, Grief, Justice, RacismLeave a Comment

Daoyou Feng, 44-year-old woman Xiaojie Tan, 49-year-old woman Hyun JungGrant, 51-year-old woman Yong Ae Yue, 63-year-old woman Sun Cha Kim, 69-year-old woman Soon Chung Park, 74-year-old woman

Riding the Rails

By: redtentwomen April 2, 2021March 24, 2021

Faith, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsEllen Oelsen, Girlfriends, Healing, Hope, Marriage, Marriage Struggles, Voice2 Comments

Victor and I are having lunch together when suddenly our conversation is muted by the loud rumble of a train. We feel the tremors of the building shake in response to the passing locomotive and wait for the train to pass. We have been apart from one another due to a season of unexpected hurdles…

Love Persevering

By: redtentwomen March 31, 2021March 29, 2021

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsGrief, Live Fully, regret, relationships, Remembering, story, Tracy JohnsonLeave a Comment

“What is grief if not love persevering?” — Vision (WandaVision, ep. 8) The cardboard box near my feet is worn. Across the top the words “family pictures—basement” tell me it was packed as we consolidated things in our Michigan basement before moving to Austin. The box holds about eight large-size Ziplock bags stuffed full of…

No End in Sight

By: redtentwomen March 29, 2021March 24, 2021

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationships, WholeheartedCounseling, Danielle Castillejo, Endings, Pandemic, The Allender Center, Therapy, Trauma RecoveryLeave a Comment

Weeks before the collective pandemic upheaval in March 2020, I found myself stepping off the Seattle-to-Bainbridge Island ferry. I am carrying a backpack chock-full of books. Some of the books are mine; others are not. Books are friends, holding words I want to remember. Piles of them are stacked in both my home and therapy…