Sincerely Sophi

Hello Lovely Blog Readers, ( In the tune of Adele's "Skyfall" ) THIS IS THE ENDDDDD. (just kidding, it's not, don't worry). A few thoughts learned from the blogs this past semester: Shitty first drafts are okay. Shitty THIRD drafts are okay (just keep editing and rewriting). Sharing your writing is vulnerable.  God fills our brokenness with His Grace and Beauty.  Not everyone cares about alllll the details of my oh so perfect (ABSOLUTELY IMPERFECT messed up HORRIBLY bad) laundry routine. Failure feels really sucky, but it is still so valuable, and God moves in our failures.  There is an abundance of time. Take things bird by bird baby (or one things at a time). Christian writing is more nuanced than we often say or think.  There are stories all around us. And these stories often show us things about ourselves and the world. But they also can connect us to people we wouldn’t expect.  The theatre is an ‘empathy gym’ and so is writing.  There are a lot of thi...

  “All good gifts around us are sent from Heaven above.” That is one of my favorite lyrics from the song "All Good Gifts" in Stephen Schwartz’s boppin’ musical Godspell, which we did at George Fox last year.  As I reflect on this past semester, I am in awe at the good gifts around me.  Just the other day as I walked to coffee with a new friend, I was astounded by the beautiful gift of a rainbow. And not just any rainbow, a bright, striking, full, double (almost triple) rainbow.  I had no control over this rainbow. It was a gift from God. Given through the gifts of rain and sunlight (and all the other science-y things that make rainbows possible). It wasn’t just the existence of the rainbow that was a gift though. I actually almost missed the rainbow. My friend and I had been walking with our backs to the rainbow and almost made it fully across the quad before I turned around and started walking backwards along the path, to illustrate something my beloved past profess...