Fields and Valleys | Vanessa Doughty | Substack

An Introduction Post

Oct 27, 2024 • Vanessa Doughty

Easter Sonnets I, II & V

Trying My Hand at a Little Poetry in Honor of Our Risen Lord

Apr 6 • Vanessa Doughty

Heart's Delight

The Beauty of Love in Relationships and the All-Satisfying Love of God

Mar 31 • Vanessa Doughty

Sitting with Mortality

Some Reflections and Lessons About a Most Taboo Topic

Mar 23 • Vanessa Doughty

Clinging to Hope

Hope can be a Dangerous Thing when Misplaced. Where is Your Hope Found?

Mar 16 • Vanessa Doughty

Most Popular

When God Says No

Feb 9 • Vanessa Doughty

Surrendering Them to God

Jan 13, 2025 • Vanessa Doughty

The Sacred Mundane

Feb 17, 2025 • Vanessa Doughty

Mar 2 • Vanessa Doughty

Recent posts

Flow like Water

How God's Constraints are Both Life Giving and Freeing

Mar 9 • Vanessa Doughty

Lay Down the Load You Weren't Built to Carry

Mar 2 • Vanessa Doughty

Creating Paths of Trust

Using Scripture & Science to "Rewire" Our Brains to Trust God

Feb 23 • Vanessa Doughty

Identity Crisis

For Anyone Who Has Ever Asked: 'Who Am I?' Where Do We Find Identity When Stripped of Worldly Labels?

Feb 16 • Vanessa Doughty

When God Says No

How can we Reconcile Unanswered Prayer with Scripture's Promise that 'He Withholds No Good Thing' from His Children?

Feb 9 • Vanessa Doughty

Can It Be? Something New 'Under the Sun?' You May Be Surprised!

Feb 2 • Vanessa Doughty

The Darkness of Winter

It's Not the Villain I Once Pegged it For: How the Lord uses Winter to Grow my Faith

Jan 26 • Vanessa Doughty

Besieged, but Not Captured

Don't Give Up! Keep Fighting 'A Little While' Longer

Jan 19 • Vanessa Doughty

Hidden Treasure

How Do You Know When It's Worth Everything You Have and More?

Jan 12 • Vanessa Doughty

What's the Point?

How do we find meaning in the seeming futility of life?

Jan 5 • Vanessa Doughty

'In the Bleak Midwinter'

His Light Breaks Through Our Darkness

Dec 24, 2025 • Vanessa Doughty

No Greater Love

A Life Spent on Love is a Life Well Spent

Dec 22, 2025 • Vanessa Doughty

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