Momastery blogger to speak on ‘messy, beautiful life’
Glennon Doyle Melton seeks to help people understand that everyone deals with struggles in life, but with faith and community they can get through them together.
“That’s what a warrior does,” she said. “She comes out imperfect, out of her armor, and out of hiding. She shows up on the battlefield every day and she takes some hits, but she carries on.”
The following is a brief summary of Melton’s story in her own words:
“For 20 years I was lost to food and booze and bad love and drugs. I suffered. My family suffered. On Mother’s Day 2002, unwed and addicted, I found myself holding a positive pregnancy test. I decided to become a mother and vowed to never again have another drink, cigarette, drug, unhealthy relationship or food binge. I found myself marrying a man I’d known for 10 sober nights.
Twelve years later, I’m still married to that man I barely knew, and I’m also the mother of three kids, two mutts, a geriatric guinea pig and the two most majestic banyan trees you’ve ever seen. I’m also a Sunday School teacher, an award-winning blogger, a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and the founder and president of Together Rising – a non-profit that serves women who need help getting back on their feet. Underneath and on top of all that I’m a Recovering Everything. Every morning, I open my eyes and immediately understand that I am still that girl on the bathroom floor, holding that pregnancy test like a terrifying invitation, trying to decide whether to stay down on the cold floor or get up and walk.
Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life’s brutal and beautiful aspects are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real. My job is to wake up every day, say yes to life’s invitation, and let millions of women watch me get up off the floor, walk, stumble and get back up again.”
Tickets for Melton’s event are $30. For more information and to register, visit canterburyumc.org/momastery.
-Submitted by Canterbury UMC