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Loud in Spirit, Paducah, KY (2026)

Name: Loud in Spirit
Address: Paducah, KY, 42003, US
Telephone: +12705563045

07/27/2023

Welcome to this divine space that I could never have created on my own. The Lord planted this tiny seed in my heart many years ago as a young wife and busy mom. The seed overwhelmed me at the time, but I held it close and nurtured it. When it began to take root I would dig it up and toss it out. The fear of being known and seen was haunting. Yet as those seedlings were tossed, His holy wind blew and carried and scattered and nourished them until this time of planting. Complete surrender comes in His perfect timing.

My soul has always deeply loved words. I loved poems as a little girl and constantly scribbled out sentences that rhymed on pretty, pastel notepads. Beautiful journals and sharpened pencils still bring childlike joy. My home is filled with life-giving Scripture and other lovely words that point me to Jesus in every room. This love for writing has consumed me though I have buried it under piles of excuses (and piles of laundry) over the years. But the longing to tell the stories He’s written on my heart constantly returns.

My days have been spent building a home and marriage, family and faith. Treasured, messy years spent teaching, playing and loving 3 curious little boys who have now grown taller than me. 30 bumpy, beautiful years of sharing life with my loving Husband who gives me the gift of laughter. A season of deep investment in ministry and the mission of the church. Sharing in deep suffering and deep joy with the best of friends. Making irreplaceable family memories. Stepping out in risk, and cowering back in fear. Days and nights of praying without ceasing and lamenting over the darkness that inevitably comes to steal, kill, and destroy. It’s difficult to put life in a paragraph, but these moments have been the absolute happiest, hardest, and holiest.

I am incredibly grateful for my life in Christ and that He continues to love this prodigal daughter. As life continues to change I realize that I have hidden myself in the most secret of places. My authentic voice has been suppressed to a whisper. I know my unworthiness, yet His promptings and invitations to come as I am are irresistible. This is my worship. I have wrestled with and longed for this harvest—this reaping of words. I humbly pray that each will serve and sustain in ways only the Spirit of God can accomplish.

Join me today in saying yes to the beautiful thing He's called you to. I don't know if it's happy or hard, but I know that's it holy.
~🤍Kelley

07/20/2023

I have found that much of life is wrestling through the broken valleys that fill it and resting on the breath-taking mountaintops that tower over it. Yet, there’s a steady tension that exists between the two, an awareness that a delicate balance is needed to level out the highs and lows. I have walked through many seasons of each and battle daily for this balance. The ups and downs still come, and I’m grateful because it’s my response to them that marks my progress and healing, showing me where my faith is truly placed.

When I stand before God’s amazing creation, I’m in awe of how the mountains and valleys are beautifully connected and flow so gracefully into one another. But when I experience them as spiritual places, I see them and feel them as complete opposites. I can too quickly get comfortable in the darkness of a pit or searching for the thrill of a peak.

The Lord is showing me that things which appear to be in opposition can actually be beautifully connected when He is intertwined in the midst of them. Things like grief and joy, devastation and hope, control and surrender, rejection and acceptance, lamenting and praying, trauma and healing. I rest in one and then I wrestle with the other. I wrestle and I rest. What a grace to live in this delicate space, completely dependent on Jesus to steady me.

Wrestling has become a word picture for my life…holding on when I’m certain that freedom is found in letting go, opening up to Him when my heart wants to completely shut down, seeking understanding when He clearly tells me to not lean on my own understanding.
One day He opened my eyes to see it…wRESTling…the holy of rest tucked right into the hard of wrestling. The holy of wrestling surrounding the hard of rest. Both lead me forward with Jesus. And forward is always the right direction because Jesus is the only right direction.

He loves us in the rest and He loves us in the wrestling. He is with us in the valley and He is with us on the mountain. Peace comes in knowing that we’re surrounded and held by holy hands wherever we are. My humblest prayer is that our mountains and valleys, our rest and our wrestling lead us consistently to Him. Our story should always point us to His greater story.

You see, Jesus stumbled under the weight of a wooden cross. He passed through a valley and up a mountain to lay down His life. The way was bloody and broken. There was deep sorrow, heart-breaking betrayal, excruciating pain, shameful humiliation, and evil hostility. But His every step was taken in the most merciful, divine love. The cross and the resurrection seem completely opposite, but they’re beautifully connected. Death was wrestled on that cross and defeated when Jesus rose from the dead. We’re now invited to come as we are and rest in the work He finished. Whether we’re bloody and broken, in deep sorrow, walking through betrayal, excruciating pain, shameful humiliation or evil hostility. The things we wrestle with are safe in His capable, holy hands. Life is always brought from death where Jesus is Lord. When we trust in the One who has gone before us, we have the promise of a life of rest in Him, now and forever.
~💙Kelley

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Paducah, KY
42003

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