Author: granttaylor311

I went to everyone’s favorite place this morning. The place you go when you’re feeling down. The place you go when you need a breath of fresh air. The place you go that’s painless, full of comfort and good news. The place we would all consider to be our second home. Heck, we would all…

At the beginning of 2022, I set out on a journey. In December each year, I pick a word — or I should say, God picks a word — that is on my heart to come alive in the new year. While one word couldn’t possibly capture or shape everything in an entire year, it…

Sometimes you just need to flop on your couch and just beThere’s deep processing that needs space to take placeCreativity needs airCreativity needs a horizon lineA view with no end, longer than a designated time slotIt breathes and blooms quietly and beautifully when it’s uninterrupted and it’s horizon stretches and stretchesA good conversation with a…

A seed must die. It must die if it wants to become something more. It must first wait, sometimes a long time. It must wait without certainty of the future, what it will become, what shape it will form, what weather it will see. A seed must die to become a tree. Versions of ourselves…

There’s a light post outside the home where I grew up in Franklin, Tennessee. The light was always a nuisance. It shined so bright, a never fainting yellow and orange glow that was as reliable as a young heart beat you would never expect to stop beating – this light never stopped shining. Night after…

When I was a kid, my mom would give us gifts on long road trips. I have clear, fond memories of her doing this for us as we sat in the back seat. It was a known tradition. She would turn around from the passenger seat with the biggest smile and ask us, “Is anyone…

I am in a season where I feel frozen over sometimes. I have an M.O. for resorting to dealing with things “later”. That makes me pretty good at dealing with crisis’ and difficult things in the moment. The truth underneath that statement is that “later” never really comes. Difficult things pile up on the inside…

There is unrest in my soul. And the soul of America. These actions are not based off of just one man who tragically lost his life. They are rising out of a deeper place of hurt and pain. George Floyd represents more than just himself as one man. The racial discrimination and suffering we are…

I helped my friend Thomas move a few weeks back. I decided to wear my bucket hat. I got it this summer as a gift, and I’ve loved it since the summer day in June that I opened it. You know when you get a gift from someone that they put thought into, and that…

Our family has never really done “New Year’s resolutions” – instead, we each choose a word. Everyone chooses a word that means something significant to them for the new year. A word that you want to see through, and have it manifest in your life over that next year with whatever comes your way –…