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Saying Thank You

By: redtentwomen September 12, 2023September 11, 2023

Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationshipsBroken Engagements, Katy Johnson Stafford, Kindness, Kindness to self, processing grief, Thank you, Thank You Notes3 Comments

I was 26 when my then fiancé called off our wedding five days prior to the big day. In the immediate aftermath, my thoughts were a numbed haze, disbelief serving as a kind of thick bubble wrap that initially insulated me from the pain I would befriend in coming months.

Light and Dark and the Hope In Between

By: redtentwomen December 19, 2022November 22, 2022

Faith, Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationships, TravelBroken Engagements, Darkness, Family Stories, Healing, Hope, Katy Johnson Stafford, Paris, Travel Abroad2 Comments

Mom leaned her head out from the balcony of the InterContinental Paris Le Grand. “You can practically hear the joy out in the streets!” she exclaimed. She was right, of course. Paris is always bright, but at Christmas time, it twinkles, and all of the cars, pedestrians, and little shops seem to twinkle with it.…

Shattered Glass and Peonies

By: redtentwomen June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

Day to Day, relationshipsBroken Engagements, Katy Johnson, Love, Loving Again, Mary Oliver, Pandemic Weddings, Weddings8 Comments

As I walk each afternoon, unplugged for just a moment from the news ticker and the marching, the masks and the hand sanitizer, I see the peonies spill over the edge of sidewalks in my neighborhood. I can’t help but stop to take them in: their smell and explosive petals. Peonies remind me that lovely…

Foolish Resurrection

By: redtentwomen March 1, 2019February 28, 2019

Faith, relationshipsBroken Engagements, Kathryn Johnson, Lent, middle ground, N.T. Write, Resurrection9 Comments

Lent is for lovers. “Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault- finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.” ― N.T. Wright 2018. The year Valentine’s…

Forever unfolding.

By: redtentwomen September 22, 2017September 17, 2017

relationshipsBroken Engagements, Death, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Hope, Katy Johnson, Resurrection, Singleness, Weddings5 Comments

“I’ve decided God is about the things that come really easy or really, REALLY hard. Everything else is just me believing if I give the right amount of effort, I’ll get the result I want. Life is a lot of me pretending I have my act together.”