Gretchen Ronnevik
@garonnevik
Farm wife. Mother to 6. Author of "Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted." Co-host of @freelygiven1517 podcast.
I want to pin a thread of my writing, that I plan to add to as it comes. Here it goes. My first book: Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted amzn.to/4l40Lps
Clothes shopping with the kids at Old Navy. Music is blasting. Electric Slide comes on. It was sad to me that I was the only one in the store who knew the dance. We could have all had a moment. What are they teaching kids these days? Made my kids proud, I’m sure.
An old football buddy of Knut’s is driving through town with his family and stopping by for lunch. Knut: does your family have any food allergies we should be aware of? Buddy: yeah, we’re allergic to vegan.
This week’s podcast @katie_n_dallas and I talk about the relentlessness of kids sports, and the tension we live in with Christian freedom and the deep need for discipleship. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fre…
I was recently talking to a friend that I've been praying for a particular “impossible” situation for a few years now. The issue is now being discussed in my circles again, so it feels like the wound refreshed. My prayers for this situation feel so impossible, and yet so close…
I read the statement put out by @MattMBarrett, one of my favorite Trinitarian theologians, on his move from the SBC to the Anglican Church. I mean shoot! Now I have to move his books next the Anglican section of my bookshelf next to rabble like “Mere Christianity.” I’m going…
Me: if there’s anything you learn from this kitchen, son, it’s that you measure garlic with your heart. 16 yo: with my heart. Me: yes. Some recipes will tell you some nonsense of “1 clove of garlic minced” and that is a cold-hearted person. 16 yo: they do not understand the…