March 2023
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Reflections on 2021: All or Nothing
I wrote this near the end of 2021, the year I was the most sick with chronic inflammation: It’s too easy for me to see 2021 as a failure. My sickness, which took up half this year, felt like it stole the year away from me. It also felt like sickness stole me away from Continue reading
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Minor Musings Over Movies: City Slickers One Thing
In the great movie City Slickers , Mitch, played by Billy Crystal is feeling lost in life. He’s depressed so he and his friends go on a cattle drive to regain some clarity and joy. In one scene, the classic cowboy, Curly, is talking to Mitch about life. He tells Mitch what the secret of Continue reading
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Rewiring the Brain: Choosing to Heal
I wrote the below during a season of intense illness. The sickness was all I could focus on. I wrestled with feelings of guilt for not being as available to others. Here is something I wrote on one of those days: I continue to think and feel like choosing to heal, as a priority, is Continue reading
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Future Meditation
God has already gone before and prepared your future. He has laid it all out. Read that again. The One who loves you, the One who holds the universe, who calls you daughter or son, has already made your future. Nothing you do or do not do is going to change God’s future for you. Continue reading
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Start with Love
Start at the beginning my friends You’ve worn the chain of works rules duties around your neck all your life that is not Christ that is man who laid that on you Let go of what you’ve learned of striving serving without being filled release the laws of musts shoulds the Savior does not offer Continue reading
About Me
An obsessive journaler who loves meeting others along their journey and giving them a hand to hold through pieces of writing. I write about the heartbreaks of life and the joys, the ups and downs, and I often learn my greatest lessons and miracles from nature.
Joyful Ruins 