by Jessica Bolyard | Jan 23, 2015 | Faith
This past New Year’s Eve I found myself, once again, incredulously staring a new year in the face. My news feed was inundated with year-end reviews and predictions for the new year. Friends had selected (and found time to write about!) their “words of the...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 23, 2014 | Faith
If you’ve known me long, you know that I simply adore the way God takes the messiest parts of our lives – those parts that we want to keep hidden in dark obscurity – and redeems them into unimaginable beauty. ViBella Jewelry believes in the way God...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 17, 2014 | Faith, Family
It’s been pretty clear to us since my daughter learned to walk that she has hoarder tendencies. From the time she coordinated her eyes and her hands and learned to close her fingers around things, she has always been clutching something in her little fists. When...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 9, 2014 | Faith
I was pulling away from the car line this morning when it came on the radio, and the disconnect between what I was feeling and the words streaming from my speakers was palpable. It’s the most wonderful time of the year with the kids jingle belling And everyone...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 3, 2014 | Faith
When I was a freshman in college, part of our orientation packet included a course catalog. Between the blue and white covers of that book was the road map to get any student through any course of study: political science, veterinary medicine, early childhood...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 2, 2014 | Faith, Family
Hello, friends – I hope you are well, and that your Thanksgiving holiday was filled with joy and light and laughter. Laughter is such medicine to weary hearts and souls, and I think so much of what ails our spirits would be healed if we found time and space to...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 19, 2014 | Miscellaneous
This isn’t the post I was going to write today, but when something grabs my heart and shakes it, I figure I have two choices: I can wait until it settles down to respond, or I can move while I’m still in turmoil. With things like I want to write today, I...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 24, 2014 | Faith
My eyes brimmed with tears, and I struggled to focus on the computer screen in front of me. I lifted my hands from the keyboard and covered my face, my chest heaving with sobs and emotions pouring forth from the deep recesses of my memory. I had a speaking engagement...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 22, 2014 | Faith, Family
We’re nearly three months into the school year, and I still feel like I’m pretending. We’ve gone from the blistering heat of August to the cool, leaf-blowing breezes of October, and I still don’t feel like this is real. For ten weeks now...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 20, 2014 | Faith, Family
She said it was okay, but it wasn’t. She said she forgave me, but I couldn’t forgive myself. She never seemed to give it another thought, but it was enough to keep me awake that night. It had been “tacky night” at our church’s nighttime...
