Archive - Jen Jensen

Very Organized Dust

Dust and Breath

Feb 19 • Jen Jensen

From time to time something really awful will happen that won’t be your fault, but through the intricate absurdity of the universe, know that this will…

Feb 9 • Jen Jensen

January 2026

I Could Have Powered the Hindenburg: On Hubris, Legumes, and the Limits of Control

What I Learned Farting for Twenty Minutes Straight

Jan 20 • Jen Jensen

Holy Enough (Go Suns!)

So that’s where I am, at the edge of a year, not making resolutions, not optimizing, not even pretending I know what comes next or WTF is going on.

Jan 1 • Jen Jensen

December 2025

Advent Week 4: The Longest Night

Affliction tells the truth about the world. Love tells the truth about what holds it. The paradox is not resolved, but it is held.

Dec 22, 2025 • Jen Jensen

Peace Exists Only Where Suffering Is Briefly Not Happening

An Advent meditation on suffering, incarnation, and the peace that does not avert its eyes

Dec 15, 2025 • Jen Jensen

Advent Week 3: Joy in Advent

Joy, it turns out, often arrives quietly. Sometimes it looks like light through the blinds. Sometimes it looks like peppermint mocha in your coffee and…

Dec 13, 2025 • Jen Jensen

Advent Week 2: Waiting for Peace

Because I’m bringing all these pieces home. I’m integrating what I once abandoned. I’m learning that peace is not what arrives after everything is fixed…

Dec 10, 2025 • Jen Jensen

Advent Week 1: We hunger. We hope. We wait.

Entering Advent Through Story, Suffering, and the God Who Comes in the Dark

Dec 1, 2025 • Jen Jensen

July 2025

By Demand: Kale Farts & Ikea

I got home and sounded like a marching band as I walked the dogs. Each step expelled more of the gas festering inside of me. The smell was pure evil…

Jul 25, 2025 • Jen Jensen

July 2022

In Memory: Junie B. Jensen

Originally written in June 2017, I can’t stand to not have this posted somewhere in her memory.

Jul 31, 2022 • Jen Jensen

We're all in process

Jul 31, 2022 • Jen Jensen

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