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Mental Health Heroes
The most courageous moments happen behind closed doors All the work YOU do choosing to keep going changing your thoughts feeling your feelings Each morning you wake up and feed yourself Every time you choose to walk The times you’ve spoken love to yourself and others Every moment you choose to live Those make you… Continue reading
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Honest Thoughts about Religious Teachings
Some religious traditions I am questioining: If anything, church should not be a building, but a people, just as the Israelites were, meant to be a light among others. What if church is not a Sunday service, but a group of people who spend time in the world seeing the hurt, lonely, and poor? I… Continue reading
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Confession of a People Pleaser
When I was young I looked for someone To call me beautiful I held my hands out Waiting for someone To hand me my value I left every conversation Hoping I’d left an impression Desperately wishing I’d be significant Remembered Special I waited for phone calls I longed for approval But as I grew older… Continue reading
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Look and Know
As I look at the sky And without doubt Know its beauty May I look at myself And know my beauty For you have made me beautiful As I look at the mountain And sit in wonder May I look at my life And feel that wonder You have made it wonderful As I look… Continue reading
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Unexpected One
Unexpected Out of fullness an act of trust I went along and God showed up Each moment with you is such a surprise my assumptions get knocked down judgements flipped on their sides no other can compare because it’s obvious you care I’ve wanted someone to value my heart but have found few who ask… 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 