K.D. Byers

What I’ve Learned About Patience

I owe one of you a story, or rather the rest of this story, the one about when I threw up my hands and told God ‘you figure it out.’ I was challenged to spend a year on patience.

That was 18 months ago, and occasionally (though not recently) I’d attend Morning Prayer on my way to the office. It’s held in our darkened sanctuary as the city traffic buzzes by outside. As the world wakes up a few…

How the 2016 Election Changed Me, a White Christian

The week before Advent a mother named Maria knocked on the front door of the church I work for; she was pregnant and in need of a place to stay.

A few days before that someone scrawled BLACK LIVES DON’T MATTER AND NEITHER DOES YOUR VOTE on a building across the street from my church. The Saturday before that at the state youth rally a Hispanic teenager had BUILD A WALL and I LOVE TRUMP pinned to…

You Figure it Out

I’m going to tell you a story.

It begins at the end of a normal Monday last August. It’d been a going, going, goingday. One of those days that isn’t bad, but it isn’t good either. When I finally climbed into bed that night my eye caught how the moon slanted through these ugly plastic blinds I kept meaning to replace and I panicked. I started to cry and then I couldn’t stop. I cried so hard I had…