by Jessica Bolyard | Sep 25, 2020 | Faith, Fellowship
Dear friend, You’re not the only one. For years I was alone. Not alone alone, because I had my husband and family and all…but really, I was alone. My life was defined by feeling alone in a crowded room. Maybe you know the lonely feeling I’m talking...
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 | 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 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 | 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...
