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Gift of Tension
Because there is no end to suffering on this earth, how do we manage? How do we take blow after blow without falling bloodied to the floor? What do we say to tragedy after tragedy? How do we take our steps each day without knowing where they will land? How do we enter into the Continue reading
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Master Weaver
The beautiful tapestry You weave means every hurt was not wasted for me or for them Your hands are magic as they bring good for all Your children even when they hurt one another You do not desire such means but they happen none the less And You see them before they did knowing the Continue reading
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Love Mingled with Grief
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – Tolkien In my last post, I wrote about the reality of grief and how it Continue reading
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Weak Faith
Have you believed yourself to have the gift of faith? Have you, then, come to a season where that faith has faltered, maybe even seemingly failed? I have. I will say that I do not understand faith to the fullest extent and so when I say my faith has failed, I know it truly hasn’t. Continue reading
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Feeling Sidelined
Are you feeling sidelined in life? Because I am. Sometimes God takes us to surprising places and sometimes they can make us feel put to the side. I have had a sudden sickness come into my life and not go away. I imagined getting over it quickly, but that is not what is happening. To 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 