The idea for Faith and Spoons came to be during a very unique time in my life. I had just gone through a rough patch and saw some big changes in things around me. I was asking God if I was in the right place or path in my life. But I stayed and waited for God to lead the way.
I've been passionate about accessibility and tech for a long time. When covid hit, and we started leaning on tech in new ways to open things up to people, I hoped that we would begin a new path of accessibility. Sadly that didn't happen and things that opened up were the first things people wanted to shut down the second it was safe to gather again.
Disabled people were left behind again in many ways and many spaces. The church was no exception.
In my own church, accessibility is important because it is needed by many. But it's something they all also run away from in many ways because none of them are okay with their sudden need of mobility devices.
One of the most common conversations I have in the church is actually trying to make people more comfortable with their changing needs, and talking about accessibility, and mobility devices.
But they're still not as on board as I'd like.
I realized that after being told not to talk about my desire for a tech focused ministry to connect people I had eventually stopped talking about it and thinking about it as often.
God wasn't having that.
The next big flair did not want to let up and that's when it all hit me. I had let the church try to make me smaller and take me away from God's way for their own. God was nudging me in a way he knew I would listen.
You can't help but listen when you realize you've fallen into the biggest trap of the church. Busyness.
I'm usually the one calling it out and yet they managed to catch me. They caught me because my love language is service and helping. And while I love people, some of those people don't love me. They just like what I can do for them.
So while God dragged me from the busy, he also reminded me that love works two ways.
He saved me from killing myself over things that didn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and made space for what did.
Faith and Spoons, is something of a new beginning for me. It brings together my love of words, my faith, and passion for accessibility, inclusion, and people.
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