Archive - hillary mcfarland.

April 2025

lord knows all chubby girls want to be thin.

Once, I handed a woman her coffee and she looked me in the eyes and gave me an impromptu word from the Lord: “Someday, you’re gonna be thin. Not skinny…

Apr 3 •

August 2024

what a musician taught me about excellence.

I think of artists and entrepreneurs I admire. How they have acquired the clarity and discipline and loving ruthlessness needed to whittle down their…

Aug 3, 2024 •

July 2024

dusting off my denim jumper.

When you always feel other and different, you learn to cope by being other and different on purpose.

Jul 1, 2024 •

June 2024

wiser minds than i have wrestled for centuries with the haunting question of: if God is good, why does he allow suffering?

Jun 15, 2024 •

October 2023

“Dwell in the land and feed on His faithfulness.”

Oct 21, 2023 •

September 2023

beauty as a way of being.

The beauty we behold here, and the beauty we make, is but a foreshadowing of what is to come.

Sep 8, 2023 •

August 2023

Are you weak? I hope so. Please listen close, my friend. If you are weak, take heart, because God has chosen you.

Aug 31, 2023 •

surely he shall comfort those he loves.

For ‘God with Us’

Aug 16, 2023 •

there will always be more books.

There will always be more books.

Aug 16, 2023 •

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