Allume Archives - Kristen Anne Glover

Words Worth Tasting

One of the wonderful things about being in community is the support you get when you’re not good yet. They are the encouragers who are not scared off by your mistakes but who are able to look beyond your imperfections to the good things God is doing in and through you.

Do you have someone like that in your life?

I am blessed to be a contributing writer at Allume, and those girls are some fierce advocates of mine. They encourage, bless, pray for me, forgive, and extend a lot of grace.

Before I was a part of the Allume community, I had Miss Williams, a college professor of mine who loved words like she loved good food. I thought it would be appropriate to tell her story for the stumblers and the storytellers today.

If you have a moment, please hop over to Allume. You’ll be glad to meet Miss Williams. Then, I’ll be back with Day 9 of my 31 Days story a bit later today. If you haven’t had a chance to read Day 8 (which I mistakenly called Day 9 yesterday because I have too much of the flu and not enough of the coffee) you can read it here.

Enough

I have been hungry, so hungry I hold on to the scraps and grovel around the floor for the crumbs. It is a kind of hunger that turns me mean and selfish, bitter and judgmental.

Have you felt that hunger?

Most of us have, from time to time. We wonder if there is really enough for everyone, so we hold on to what we can get and snarl for the bread in the hands of another.

But the truth of it is, there is enough. Enough for you and enough for me and enough for everyone to eat without envy. Please join me over at Allume today where I share a story about having enough.

God Wants You to Fail

A few weeks ago, I was asked to be a contributing writer to the Allume blog. I looked through the list of contributing writers and swallowed hard.

(Eep).

I was more than a little afraid I’d trip all over my prepositional phrases and flat-out fail in front of all the real writers and big-time bloggers.

As I struggled through writing my first post, God kind of hijacked the whole thing and whispered in my ear, “May you fail.”

That is not what I want God to say to me when I write. But it was exactly what I needed to hear.

Today, my inaugural post is up. It’s a little raw and a little real and a little not-what-I’d-planned to write. It’s about coming to terms with the fact that God wants me to fail. If you read along, I think you will find that God wants you to fail too. And it’s okay.

Won’t you join me?

8 Ways to Eat Healthy

And for something completely different, I had the privilege of writing a post for the Fit2B blog yesterday. I’ve been following Beth’s exercises to help heal my diastasis, so when she asked for some help writing a few posts on nutrition, I jumped at the chance. I have not been writing much about health and nutrition lately because I’m trying to follow a few blogging rules (focus, focus, focus), but if you know me, you know that nutrition is a passion of mine.

But for most of us, eating healthy is hard.

In my post for Beth, I offer 8 tips to help you get a handle on healthy eating. And guess what? They’re all easy.

Enjoy the blog hop! Tomorrow, I’ll be back here with something new.

–Kristen