by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 10, 2014 | Faith
This is a snapshot I took of myself before leaving for church yesterday morning. It doesn’t look exceptional to you, probably, but to me it represents a major victory. The clothes I wore were the first thing I saw when I opened my closet. They were also the very...
by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 5, 2014 | Faith
I loved my fourth grade teacher. Mrs. Harris was funny and kind and so smart. She was tall and beautiful and always wore trendy clothes – always looked, to me, more like a model than the teacher of multiplication tables and the scientific method. So when word...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 27, 2014 | Faith
For the past decade or so, around this time every year, the question has begun buzzing around my community and circle of friends: “What are you giving up for Lent?” The question has always been a hard one for me. Though I grew up in the church, the idea of...
