The 2023 Spirit & Truth conference is almost a full week behind me and I find I am still standing in the wake of its effects. Yesterday was a particularly tender day as my colleagues can tell you when I spontaneously began to cry in the middle of recording an episode of the S&T podcast. People who’ve known me for a while would tell you that kind of thing simply does not happen to me very often. As I sat there futilely trying to remain composed, I realized I was trying to hold back a tidal wave of unprocessed thoughts and emotions. In the immediate moments after big God-encounters, or major life events– I often don’t have words to describe my feelings or thoughts until days later. In this case, it just so happens that “days later” was inconveniently in the middle of my work day.
As I sniffled my way through the rest of my work day, and then finally ugly-cried in the privacy of my bedroom (it was a lot of crying y'all) a thought began to surface.
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