To Showing Up: Raising a Glass to Lessons Learned in Everyday Life

This book is a metaphorical toast to the process of showing up in life and how whole-person formation takes place when people allow themselves to be fully present. To Showing Up includes essays about common areas of life in all of their beauty, pain, and awkwardness. As people show up in spaces that are both familiar and unfamiliar, they are formed not only by their presence and the presence of those around them but also by the Presence of God in beauty, brokenness, and everything in-between. To Showing Up is both a story about showing up and a challenge to continue to do so.

Kayla Smith, crowned Little Miss Rodeo Missouri 1995, eventually traded in pageant crowns for softball cleats and wound up obsessed with the idea of showing up--in friendship, in life, and at her favorite local breweries. Smith resides in St. Louis, Missouri, where she has worked in full-time ministry for over a decade. She enjoys writing, working out, day-dates with her mini BFFs, and playing in the dirt with her nephew and niece. She is a daughter, sister, friend, and aunt, but most importantly, a follower of Jesus.