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When Silence Can’t Be Heard

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by shelimassie

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” -Tori Amos I am naked. There is a boy with some sort of facial hair watching me. I am not sure what they gave me, but I know I don’t have a bra on. (Apparently that…

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Labor of Pain, Labor of Love

Posted on December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 by shelimassie

I grew up Catholic. Not an Easter-and-Christmas Catholic. But an every-week-we-went-to-mass-and-my-great-grandmother-taught-us-the-rosary Catholic. We were Irish, loud, played bingo, had the priest over for dinner and I just assumed that everyone else lived the same way we did. I went to Catholic schools, wore the plaid skirts and knew the Stations of the Cross before I…

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Nine Quarters and One Santa

Posted on November 26, 2018 by shelimassie

When I was a little girl, my grandfather hid quarters behind our ears every time we saw him. The quarters would appear out of nowhere. He did the same trick every time we saw him and every time we were amazed by his level of magic skills. These same quarters would also be “reward” when…

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The Garden Warrior

Posted on October 28, 2018November 25, 2018 by shelimassie

When I was little, “underoos” were a thing. Underwear that suddenly turned you into a superhero. One Christmas my grandma thought it was a cute idea to buy all of the grandkids a pair. We stood in front of the Christmas tree adorned with colorful lights, all in a row, the five oldest cousins in our underoos….

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Outside the Evangelical Bubble

Posted on September 23, 2018November 25, 2018 by shelimassie

I have never felt more out of place than I do with “Christians.” My first year in high school, I tried out for the color guard. Now, keep in mind I have about as much coordination as a two-year-old waking up from a nap with head cold, but there I was trying to make the…

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Unicorns and Rainbows…..

Posted on May 31, 2018 by shelimassie

“Being adopted is like having blank chapters in the story of your life.” – Adult Adoptee I remember vividly the night after we had been matched with our son from Uganda. I lay awake in bed just sobbing, what I thought was a release of emotions carried these past two years of waiting. My husband…

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SheLoves- Ocean Loud Enough to Hold my Grief…..

Posted on May 31, 2018 by shelimassie

I had saved my pennies for months. I said no to as many coffees as I could and finally boarded the plane to the Pacific Northwest. To Portland. To my baby sister. She was holding space for me to grieve. Follow the rest of the article here….

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When God Held Space

Posted on April 15, 2018November 25, 2018 by shelimassie

In therapy “holding space” is described as walking alongside someone without judging or trying to fix anything, just hearing and being fully present in the moment. It means to offer unconditional support and letting go of our judgment and control no matter the outcome. I don’t want to brag or anything, but I know my…

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Washed Clean

Posted on April 5, 2018 by shelimassie

I cry everytime I take communion. Every. Single. Time.   This is not true of me growing up. I was a good little Catholic school girl who grew up knowing the words to Hail Mary before I knew what the constitution was. Every Wednesday we went to Mass before school in our little plaid skirts,…

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Tolerated Education

Posted on April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 by shelimassie

When my oldest daughter was in second grade a student in her class pulled a knife on the teacher. I was young and scared. And that is how I reacted: scared. I pulled her from the school and enrolled her younger sister and her into a private Lutheran school we could not afford. We ate…

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