twyla
Twyla Franz is a relentless believer in direction over pace, and a proponent of ripple-effect living. A blueberry tea drinker, sourdough bread baker, minimalist wanna-be, chalk painter, mom of three, and wife to her first and forever. She plays worship songs loud and on repeat, and numbers her thanks to remember gratitude is a before, not an after. As an introvert who now has a village of neighbors, she believes a meaningful life with the people right in front of you and God spilling into your relationships is possible.
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How to Grow Gritty Gratitude When Life Is Painful
My experience with gratitude took a deep dive after my husband suddenly died in 2018. The morning after he died, I made a journal entry of the ways I saw God show up on the worst…
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Something a Snake Invasion Teaches About How to Pray
I relate to the way the Israelites prayed. When something terrible happens, I want God to take it away. But the snake invasion teaches something significant about how to pray.
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How to See the Struggle With Food Through New Glasses
My struggle with food began in childhood, eventually developing into disordered eating that followed me into my mid-twenties. I was a deeply feeling person growing up in a time when we weren't taught what to…
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40 Fundamentals Fresh on the Mind as I Turn 40
But all of a sudden, you’re the age your teenage self remembers your parents. So you begin a list of little learnings you’ve picked up the past four decades. Fundamentals, you title it.
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POV: When You Suddenly Realize How Lucky You Actually Are
She was the image of what I wanted to be and the epitome of everything that I felt like I was not. She was, in a word, “grateful.”
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Finitude, Focus, and Other Delicate Musings About Life
There's a comforting conjunction of crisp and cozy that enters with autumn. A deliberate extension of the both/ands that offer hope along with the hard.
