by Leeana Tankersley | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog
Elle, my five-year-old, asks me: “Mom, are you tired?” “Yes, Elle, I am tired,” I say. “How did you know?” “Because you’re wearing all soft clothes.” I look down and realize she’s absolutely right. I am...
by Leeana Tankersley | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
Reporting live, once again, from the Messy Middle. I’m just gonna go ahead and capitalize that phrase, since it’s become a helpful marker for wherever the heck I am right now. I’ve been writing to you over the last few weeks about this idea of being...
by Leeana Tankersley | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
There are a lot of different ways to be homeless, to feel displaced in your own life. Relationally homeless. Spiritually homeless. Physically homeless. Professionally homeless. Even emotionally homeless, as waves of tragedy and violence fill this world we are trying...
by Leeana Tankersley | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog
I spoke to an amazing group of women this weekend. we talked about the word BRAZEN and how it literally means “unashamed” and “unapologetic.” We talked about receiving our identity, reclaiming our voices, and recovering our souls, which is all...
by Leeana Tankersley | Oct 23, 2017 | Blog
Yesterday at church, we sang the line “You are the beginning and the end” over and over again as a chorus to one of the worship songs. And it took me right to this thought: Even when we are in the midst of a messy middle in life, and I am (and some of you...