Based in the desert of West Texas, Amara Bratcher is a full-time student minister who also writes, takes pictures and volunteers with at-risk children. She has written a book entitled The Bridge That Love Built for adopted kids who have gaps in the early years of their lives. She likes her coffee French Pressed and wears her hair curly 365 days a year. 

winter

Amara Bratcher

Winter is here.
I exhale.
The season and my experience are unified.
Winter is a hibernation, a stripping away, a death.

2021 has been a series of {not so} unusual events.
It has been more than I cared to take.
I am relieved to find myself here, in winter.
There’s no pretending that life is in bloom.

It’s cold and dark.
Nature acknowledges the truth.
Sometimes we have to sit and mourn.
Winter dignifies this response.

with

Let the Dawn Come