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Assume the Worst
I want SO BADLY to assume the worst just like you assumed the worst of me but I know better and I trust that humans are complex and we don’t always do out best So no matter how badly you’ve hurt me I have to believe there’s something good there I have to give the Continue reading
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Harmful God
God feels so often like an excuse an excuse to avoid humanity You can’t be sad or anxious or scared You can’t love who you love or be friends with the most human of people Disasters aren’t disasters but blessings in disguise Hurt isn’t hurt but lessons to sanctify God is used to harm to Continue reading
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Hurt People Hurt People (Not an Excuse)
You broke my heart once and I turned away Now I see your heart was broken and breaking mine wasn’t about hurting me It was about you hurting I don’t regret walking away because your treatment of me was not okay but I wish I hadn’t let the hurt define me knowing now the way Continue reading
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Onondaga Lake
I recently read an incredible book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In one of the chapters, she writes about Onondaga Lake. I cried and had to write some kind of apology for how we, humans, have hurt native peoples and mother nature. Forgive us for caring more about progress than your preservation For taking Continue reading
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Some day
Some day it won’t be goodbye Some day it won’t end in tears instead there will be a safe embrace that never ends Two hearts that unite and never part Some day I won’t have to hurt someone or myself by letting go because I’ll be holding on to your hand and neither of us 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 