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You’re Not in Trouble
A gentle unravelling of old fear when grace speaks a sentence the heart has longed to hear. 🕯️ There are moments when a single sentence reaches deeper than years of explanation. While reading Leading from the Stop, I came across a simple line: “You’re not in trouble.” The words were small. Quiet. Almost ordinary. Yet…
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When Someone Disappears Without Goodbye
A reflection on the quiet grief of relationships that end without explanation, and how God gently heals unfinished places 🕯️There is a particular kind of loss that rarely receives a name. It is not the loss of death. It is not the clear ending of a relationship through conflict or decision. It is quieter than…
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When the Pencil Becomes a Prayer
A quiet returning — how drawing restores the body, steadies the emotions, and makes room for God’s gentle nearness 🕯️ There are moments when words feel too heavy, too clumsy, or simply unavailable. In those moments, the hand often knows what the heart cannot yet say. Drawing becomes a quiet invitation to slow down, to…
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Where Comfort Becomes Healing
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Walking Through, Not Getting Over It
Why “Build a Bridge and Get Over It” Betrays the Broken-Hearted 🕯️✍️📖🕊️🪨🌱 This morning, Roland and I were in our daily rhythm of rolling towels at The Crate, talking about Encounter Group rhythms, numbers, and locations, when he paused and said, “Let me ask you something because I hear this from some people and I…
Patrizia Schwartz
a.k.a. Trixi
