This is where I write about the in-between spaces. The choices that don’t fit neatly into categories, the identities that shift as we grow, and what it means to build something authentic when the scripts we’re handed no longer fit. Faith shows up here as well, as practice and grounding, never as doctrine. So do the questions we ask at 40-something that we couldn’t have imagined at 25.
I write from the middle of it all, through the ongoing work of figuring it out.
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