Resurrection – Red Tent Living

Muskegon

By: redtentwomen January 9, 2023December 17, 2022

Day to Day, Monthly Themes, relationships, The Home, TravelAccepting Reality, Becky Allender, difficult seasons, Expectant Hope, Resurrection12 Comments

It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. As accurate as this aphorism is, the frame often says more than the picture. The picture captures our attention, but without the frame, our eyes would wander over the painting without focus and intentionality. This became exceedingly clear as I looked through an old…

Cancel Culture and Campfires

By: redtentwomen June 28, 2021June 12, 2021

Intentional Living, Monthly Themes, relationships#churchtoo, #MeToo, Cancel Culture, injustice, Justice, Katy Johnson, Resurrection1 Comment

It was December 22, and the fire crackled as we nestled up in our sweatshirts, the oldest among us sipping whiskey to keep warm on our parents’ back deck. Beneath the large mesquite tree, we were occupying a new space as siblings: the first of us married and the youngest among us bidding childhood goodbye…

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…

The Land of the Living

By: redtentwomen May 21, 2018May 20, 2018

Faithdepression, Faith, grave, Jesus, Kelsi Folsom, Marriage, Motherhood, Resurrection, suicidal thoughts2 Comments

The boulder in my yard was rather large, covered in ferns and lichens. It rested beneath a mango tree, residing in my periphery as I toiled over hand washing clothes and pinning them up to dry in the sunlight. It perched just shy of a conversation amidst the brush, iguanas, and wildflowers, holding its breath…

Looking for a Resurrection

By: redtentwomen October 19, 2017October 18, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsChildren Growing Up, Dan Allender, Death, Dr. Dan Allender, Gap Year, Letting Go, Maryhelen Martens, Resurrection6 Comments

I walk past the bike rack and into the familiar place with different eyes today. I push through the first set of wide metal doors into the entryway, past the water fountain and the “park scooters here” sign.

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.”

Hope in the Gap

By: redtentwomen May 12, 2017May 11, 2017

Day to Day, relationshipsDeath, Easter, Eggs Benedict, Ellen Oelsen, Family, family traditions, Hope, Recovery from Trauma, Resurrection7 Comments

For most of my children’s lives Easter included the excitement of dying and hunting eggs and candy brought in the middle of the night by the Easter bunny.