poncho, porch, & more
okay, so I couldn’t find a 3rd P.. i’m not into that alliteration jive.. I got the green light this morning, to give a prop and shout out.. this warm & enthusiastic blog link to my friend, and yours, Jen Lemen [now at www.jenlemen.com], an emerging voice for our time and our generation.. here’s a sneak peak at her recent thought:
normally, when i encounter this kind of redemption screaming my name, i put it back on the rack and walk away forlorn. but not that day. i bought that poncho without a second thought, and the very thought of it in the bag put a jump in my step all the way home.
I find myself strangely warmed by her authentic voice, and how she’s able to find the redemptiveness in a poncho, on her porch, and of her life as a mother of two younguns, and all the more as she navigates through life in our loosely connected faith community, perhaps all the more loosely b/c we’re geographically and psychographically marginalized, but we hang out there weekly since it’s the only place we’ve found safe enough to believe + to doubt.. (and while she doesn’t have an email or comment link on her blog yet, you can comment here, and I’ll see to it that she gets your perculating responses)