by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 13, 2020 | Faith
I remember the morning clearly: I was driving my daughter to Mother’s Day out, crossing an overpass near my house, when a song carried me away from my present reality. With lyrics that penetrated my heart and touched something in me that needed to be reached,...
by Jessica Bolyard | May 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you think that’s a funny title for a blog post, I’m assuming you probably think it’s a funny title for a book. Regardless…that’s the title of my first book, due out any day now! The thing is, prayer is tricky, and I think we sit down...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 13, 2019 | Faith
One year ago, on New Year’s Day of 2018, God did what I never thought He would have to do. He told me to be quiet. For the past ten years or so, His command to me has been to speak – loudly and boldly, in writing and onstage – about the transformative power of...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 8, 2017 | Fellowship
Last spring my family had the chance to travel to the mountains of West Virginia to visit my husband’s extended family. The highlight of the trip, for me, was visiting the farm where my mother-in-law grew up: deep in the Shenandoah Valley, nestled between the...
by Jessica Bolyard | Nov 1, 2017 | Faith
This post was originally published on October 17, 2014, when the Ebola scare was in full swing. Recent events – though different – have stirred some of the same emotions in our collective heart, so I thought it might serve us all well to revisit this...
by Jessica Bolyard | Oct 9, 2017 | Family
On a Thursday night about a year ago, I sat at the softball field waiting for my daughter’s softball game to start. I wasn’t watching her team warm up, though. I was watching for my parents to get there and claim their spots on the metal bleachers. They...
by Jessica Bolyard | Sep 18, 2017 | Faith
Ten minutes after I should have left, I pulled the carefully-placed bobby pins from my hair and tossed them onto the bathroom counter. “I should be there by now,” I told Him. “And this doesn’t make any sense…” Once my hair was...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 25, 2017 | Faith, Fellowship
I’d seen her at church for awhile – how long, I’m not sure, because I was in my own self-imposed solitary confinement and wasn’t fully aware of anything going on outside of myself. But I had seen her, and based on what I saw, I had my...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 23, 2017 | Faith
My husband and I aren’t big watchers of (current) TV shows. If we’re going to watch anything on TV, our default is “Friends” reruns on Netflix. We’ve seen the entire series way too many times because honestly, there’s just not much...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 10, 2017 | Family
Hey there, mama. You’re sending your little one off for their first day of school, huh? It might actually be their first day of school – their first steps into the world of kindergarten – or this might be one of their last first days. Mine?...
