Everything isn’t going to be ok. I’m not supposed to say that out loud and you’re definitely not supposed to believe it. But this is the terrible truth; Bad things will happen and sometimes it not ok. If you’ve suffered a miscarriage or struggled through a divorce, you already know this. If you’ve lost a parent to cancer or a spouse to a car accident, or if your child died before you, then you have firsthand knowledge of just how badly things can turn out. To live through such a catastrophe is to learn that sometimes, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, things can end in disaster. Disaster ..read more

I’ve been thinking about this space for a long time, wondering what to do with it now that everything has changed so much. This little corner of the internet was built around a life I no longer live; a career I no longer have, a marriage I’m no longer in, and a family that looks nothing like it did twelve or thirteen years ago when I started writing down words and letting strangers read them online. The Very Worst Missionary was created and grown as a “faith and lifestyle blog”, but it’s fair to say that the faith and lifestyle depicted in many of these pages doesn’t even come close to represe ..read more