Ah, the fairytale. “I want a man like that,” young me would declare after watching a Disney movie, unconcerned with plot points such as a prince who falls in love with a fairy-dusted pretty face and an uncomfortable pair of shoes. “I want a man like that,” teenage me would croon while dreaming of being […]
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Tears streamed down her lightly freckled cheeks as her blue eyes swam in an emotion she couldn’t quite identify. Her head bowed over the opened page. Her finger reverently traced each word. She whispered his name. She squeezed her eyes shut and muttered, why? She shook her head, too repulsed to continue. She scanned the […]
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The Power of One
One. The solitary number just never seems big enough, does it? One potato chip? Hardly!! One dollar? Barely enough to buy a soda anymore. One day of vacation? You can’t even get fully relaxed! I am so quick to dismiss one, often feeling as though it’s lack reflects my own. After all, in a culture […]
Work in progress; please pardon the mess
“I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.” Romans 7:15 I love that Paul penned those words, and I am so thankful that God chose to include them in the Bible. For those two sentences perfectly encapsulate my day […]
A Creed Worth Reading (and memorizing!)
My dear friend and mental health champion, Aimee Elizabeth Caverly, has written a Creed for Mental Wellness. Having struggled with mental illness for years, Aimee knows first hand that hope in the midst of blinding darkness is possible! She is a living testimony that healing can happen and that a diagnosis does not define you. […]