Hey everyone!
Welcome to another issue of Storied! We’re so glad you’re here. Not too much to say at the top of this email except that we’ve officially started what we’re calling our “summer hours”. These emails will likely still come out every weekend, but they might be shorter or just less content heavy. We’re still going to hold our monthly Zoom calls and might even our Book Club back up towards the end of the summer (if that sounds fun!) But in general, we’ll be spending as much time outside enjoying being a family and making the most of these weeks Chris is home from tour. Thanks y’all!
gabby + chris
"Who Was I Before, I Gave Myself Away?"
By Gabby Llewellyn
These lyrics by Jon Guerra have been rattling around in my heart ever since I heard them this past weekend. In fact, the entire song has been haunting me. But these two lines…
We talk a lot about what we lose in the process of disentangling our faith from religion— certainty, community, acceptance, etc, etc. But I’ve realised we don’t talk as much about what we’re gaining. Why are any of us keeping on this journey at all? Why does any of this matter? While I know we could probably each answer that question differently, for me it’s myself.
As someone who grew up with doctrine about “humiliating the flesh”, always becoming “less so that God could become more”, and striving to the point of mental breakdown to minimise myself at all costs…still feels a little sacrilegious to even type that out.