by abigailalleman | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s been a minute. Thank you for grace and continuing on the journey with me 🙂 I got up at 4:30 am to run with my running group this morning. It was a balmy 49 degrees here in Chicagoland. I ran less than a week ago in 4 degree weather. Winter comes and winter...
by abigailalleman | Jun 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why Am I Here? It’s not a light question, but in our heart of hearts we find it a persistent one. For me I usually ask this when I feel like all is ho-hum or rutted in my day-to-day life. I know I am here to glorify and love God as His daughter, a wife, mother,...
by abigailalleman | May 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Though we may not see it, our journey will clear and there will be a breathtaking view. Grief is a universal state of our being. Everyone on this planet is in some way grieving the inevitable losses in a fallen world. Whether through death, illness, broken...
by abigailalleman | Apr 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Though my healing journey is real, some days, and moments, are just hard. There is an ebbing and flowing to how we are really doing. I say ‘we’ because we are all on a mental health journey. It is a part of living in a fallen world, a broken world, which...
by abigailalleman | Jul 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
photo credit Six years ago, I started writing a memoir. I was three quarters of the way through writing and with a full book proposal, when my hyper-manic episode came. Two weeks in the mental ward of a Budapest hospital and the entire arc of my story changed. My work...
by abigailalleman | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Photo Source I stood in front of over a hundred women who love Jesus just like me. It was the end of our Church’s Women’s Retreat. As happened with me often, I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit during ‘open mike’ time. Since I started on my...
by abigailalleman | Mar 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
The moment we think something we do belongs to us, we lose the way.~ Rigoberta Menchu In these days of the coronavirus and limitations on our freedom, I am thinking of vulnerability in an entirely different way. These days vulnerable means the children with special...
by abigailalleman | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve been feeling really scattered these days. I hate feeling scattered. It seems to mess with just about everything I love–My joy, peace, hope, vulnerability and many other things. The thing with feeling scattered is that it may have a good origin. For...
by abigailalleman | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
sin·cere/sinˈsir/ adjective: free from pretense or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings. Similar: heartfelt, wholehearted, profound, deep from the heart, genuine, real, unfeigned, unaffected, true, honest, bona-fide, earnest, cordial, fervent, ardent, devout,...
by abigailalleman | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Waiting is hard. I know I have often hated it. Yet, I know there’s a richness to it I am somehow supposed to experience. And, I know vulnerability is essential to true waiting. I’ve waited for many things which have been fulfilled. Like when I waited to be...
