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...
by abigailalleman | Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
I don’t always take kindly to being vulnerable. But, these days, when I am, it comes from a place of deep thankfulness. When I speak vulnerably I know I am being and will be infused with perspective and strength. And by offering places of pain and shame to the...
by abigailalleman | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost A few short months after we returned from Hungary, we entered an entirely new community. It was a beautiful community, but still, a new...
