Kris Camealy

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Writer. Speaker. Encourager.

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Author + Speaker + Retreat Host + Lover of Jesus, Sequins and the kitchen

Books I’ve Authored and Contributed to

Everything Is Yours, How Giving God Your Whole Heart Changes Your Whole Life (Author)

Come, Lord Jesus: The Weight of Waiting (Author)

Holey, Wholly, Holy: A Lenten Journey of Refinement (Author)

Soul Bare (Contributor)

The Heart Of Marriage (Contributor)

Craving Connection

(in)Courage Devotional Bible (CSB) (Contributor)

A Moment to Breathe (Contributor)

Everyday Joy, a Collection of Devotions (Contributor)

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My friend and fellow author, @revsummerjoy sat down with me the other day for a conversation about the way attachment theory helps us understand how we connect with God, and her upcoming book, The Emmanuel Promise.

Summer has been doing this deep w

Scenes from a regular Friday:

1. Started my day with an Açaí bowl from @ethosco.cafe . I’ve never had one of these before and it was ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Follwed that up with a lovely mastermind meeting with my girls, @girlstalkinglife @megan

“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse o

My home office project is inching towards the finish line. I’m spending a lot of time thinking about color these days, and why it affects me the way it does and why that matters.

Yesterday I was collecting some fragments of my art and noticed

Meanwhile feels like another way of saying, “have hope, there’s more than what you see here.”

As we walk barefoot in the cool grass of spring watching the world re-awaken to life, meanwhile feels like the reminder we’ve need

Instructions for the weekend: find a spot of light and go sit in it.

May rest and delight find you this weekend, friends. May you have the will to look for it,and the eyes to see it, and the surrender to receive it (even if it’s stormy where

I’m back at my art table, playing with color, remembering what brings me life, and reflecting on what it means to live with a maker spirit in a manager world. I’ve always marched to the beat of a different drum (a la Henry David Thoreau

“Color directly influences the soul.” ~Kandinsky⁣
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Our lives are filled with touchstones, those things that guide us (even without our conscious permission) and those things which we return to again and again, all along the way. And some

“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?”⁣
~L.M. Montgomery⁣
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Last night’s storms brought with them other-worldly skies, and for a few moments, sandwiched between the dark and ligh

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If like me, you’re standing on the other side of Easter Sunday, with lingering questions and inner murmurings, and maybe even a little angst, I’ll share the question with you, that I am asking myself—where do you see resurrection

“The growing point of our soul ⁣
is the thing with which the Spirit of God ⁣
is especially dealing with ⁣
and all depends on faithfulness there.” ⁣
~Lilias Trotter⁣
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I left something behind on retreat that I have no intention of ever pic

How do you put words around a year of your life that culminates in one breathtaking weekend, surrounded by the most beautiful, shining, fierce and tender women you’ve ever met? How do you talk about the 100’s of ways God shows up and draw

Ten years of hosting intimate, sacred retreats has taught me this much—I trust God to do God’s work. Soul transformation is what God does. It’s His eminent domain. ⁣
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We plan and prepare, we curate and design, we provide and we ble

“Life is made up of beginnings and endings. … Though we enter and exit many rooms, jobs, relationships, communities, life stages—over the course of our life, knowing how and when to leave is a decision that rarely has a clear answe

As I’ve been working on these cards for my Artist’s Deck, I’ve found (at least, lately) that I have been drawn to words pertaining to vision. A friend asked the other day if I had a theme for my cards and I said not entirely—o

Every corner of my house is gathering piles and boxes of materials for @refineretreat . In 18 short days I’ll be staring out of different windows surrounded by 30+ women all on retreat with me for their own reasons. ⁣
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This is when, after a ye

These days are a⁣
blur⁣
We buy formal dresses⁣
We visit collages⁣
We stay up late for lessons and ⁣
conversation⁣
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We eat in the car⁣
And drink coffee around⁣
the clock⁣
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The washing machine runs all day like⁣
we do⁣
And we fall into bed⁣
weary⁣
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“Inexperience provides us with a childlike fearlessness that is the polar opposite of the alleged wisdom that age confers on us, the “wisdom” telling us some goals are foolish, a waste of time, invitations to disaster. In its purest

I’ll be up-front here and say that I don’t love card #5 at all. I nearly decided not to show it to you, but for some reason this image of bars and an open passage way nags at me and so I’m showing it to you—here it is. Make o

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