HI, WELCOME TO MY BLOG!

I’m delighted you’ve found your way to this quiet corner.

If you’re longing for a place to pause for a few moments and listen for the voice of love that calls from beyond the busyness or through the pain, I hope you’ll find it here. Whatever has brought you, I pray you’ll find here a gentle, grace-filled space in which to listen together to God’s heartbeat and settle a little more deeply into God’s love.

Carolyn Watts

Hope When You Hurt

As I walk, I see gates everywhere—most closed, some locked, a few standing open. And beyond the gates, rhododendrons dressed in mauve and fuscia and

Carolyn Watts May 25, 2020 7 Comments

When you need a moment of lightness (PLUS a mini prayer retreat just for you)

There’s someone on my bike route with a fun sense of humor. I’ve never met them, but each time I bike, the trail of lightness

Carolyn Watts May 18, 2020 No Comments

The grace of tight places

I woke this morning from a dream in which I was setting out to bike over a bridge. Before I could get onto the bridge,

Carolyn Watts May 11, 2020 2 Comments

How to grow in rocky places

I don’t know about you, but these months of the pandemic have been humbling for me. There’s something about all the unsettledness of it—the rising

Carolyn Watts May 4, 2020 11 Comments

How frustration can lead to transformation

What deeper understanding of God and ourselves will we each eventually carry out of this pandemic period? I’ll leave with a deeper knowledge that being

Carolyn Watts April 27, 2020 1 Comment