Sarah Bessey's Field Notes

Hi friends, Iā€™m excited to share that after listening to a lot of your feedback and comments, Iā€™ve finally decided on our Field Notes summer deep-dive series. Below, youā€™ll find the background for this summer series, the details of how it works, and what you can expect as well as how to sign up to join in. So keep scrolling for all the info you need to anticipate whatā€™s coming next.

Hi friends, One of the most popular posts I’ve written here over the years is an essay called Your Job Isn’t To Get Over Your Anger.

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Photo by Jaime Bishara on Unsplash Hi friends, My husband had a work conference in Prince Edward Island last week and I tagged along.

Hi friends, I am so excited to welcome K.J. Ramsey to Field Notes! For those of you who don’t know her yet, K.J. Ramsey is an increasingly feral mystic (Sarah: same, same!) who is utterly devoted to the joy of being alive.

Photo by Ekaterina Grosheva on Unsplash I am seven years old, standing in the front row of the church in the Canadian prairies. Our congregation is a simple one, just a few dozen of us in a community centre clapping along to the repetitive and simple praise choruses about the exodus of Israel or the blood of Jesus or repeated proclamation of Hosannas. Three tambourines in a small room make quite a racket. The ladies wave banners, the children dance.

Hi friends, This week, it’s time for our quarterly SHARING OF THE GOOD THINGS but before we head into that little respite together, I wanted to ask you for an opinion on our upcoming series here at Field Notes. For the uninitiated, I typically write a deep-dive series of essays or devotionals here at Field Notes a couple of times a year from Advent to Lent to our Unexpected Jesus series.

Photo by Roberto Nickson on Unsplash This blessing is not simple. It does not have a section in the drug store's greeting card section. This blessing is not uncomplicated. It is for the things that are happening or happened, or will happen far away from the highlight reels. It does not come with hashtags or comment sections or 'girl, you've got this!' blithe encouragement in text messages. This is a blessing for the things you do not, cannot, post or sometimes even name.

I would walk any aisle in any church now and say, yes, I want to re-dedicate my life to this kind of love all over again. Hi friends, When he was in kindergarten, his first pair of glasses were navy blue and there was a little green squid along the arm of them. At his graduation from high school last week, I couldn’t stop thinking of that little face and those silly squid glasses and the unique kid who wore them, all the stories only we know together.

And hopefully some better advice instead Hi friends, My husband Brian and I are celebrating a milestone anniversary today: our 25th wedding anniversary. It sounds like such a grown-up one, doesn’t it? I mean, your parents and their friends had things like “silver anniversaries.” How do we qualify? This sounds like we are properly middle-aged.