2026 started off pretty rough for me. My season of isolation, brought on by living on my own and struggling to find a sustained, committed community over the first year and a half of my PhD program, compounded into an emotional knot that was difficult to work through. Couple that with feeling defeated and despondent …
Tag: prayer
The 2025 Easter Post: A Prayer Through Psalm 40
I wait intently upon the Lord, knowing He has heard my cry for help, help in the midst of a season of loneliness, of striving and feeling stuck, a cry for help waging war against my own sin, my own lack of gratitude, my own blindness to the goodness of the God I cry out …
Continue reading The 2025 Easter Post: A Prayer Through Psalm 40
Thanksgiving 2023: Rejoicing in the Lord
My favorite holiday has returned, so it’s time for the annual Thanksgiving Blog Post! Entering into the holiday, I’m in need of some gratitude in my life. This year has been an odd battle of struggling with feelings of envy and comparing my life to others’. And nothing steals joy more than desiring what others …
The Subcreators: One Year Later
It’s been just over one year since we founded The Subcreators. If that name sounds familiar to you, that means one of two things. One, you know me personally and are a part of the group. Two, you’ve read J. R. R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories,” which defines what “subcreator” means. The idea behind the …
The Thanksgiving Post 2021
The 20s are weird. No, I don’t mean the 2020s—though it certainly has been a strange decade so far. I mean the 20-somethings, the age every kid wants to reach, the stage of life that many people might say are the best years of your life… The age that is, well, underwhelming. And overwhelming. At …
By Madelynn Orion 