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  • Hardship and Choices-Part Four

    The biggest and most important choice I have made over the course of this long journey, is to stay connected. Connected to God, to friends, to family, to people. Isolation is the greatest enemy to someone suffering. It allows the… Continue reading

  • Hardship and Choices- Part Three

    It was hard not to feel defeated at the beginning of the battle. There were so many mountains to climb and my numbers and resources so few. I struggled through sludge to make it to each marker. A sign that… Continue reading

  • Hardship and Choices- Part Two

    Jeremiah 29:11. The scripture that was shared with me abundantly during that first year of brokenness and is a comfort to me, even now. It was the first time that I began to understand and believe the love that God… Continue reading

  • Hardship and Choices- Part One

    There are so many choices we get to make over the course of our existence on this planet. Some are life changing, some are mundane, some are necessary, some are not. There are choices we are forced to make, while… Continue reading

  • Joy

    So many people believe that happiness and joy are indistinguishable. Some have never experienced both in a way that establishes the distinction. As it is with any emotion, happiness is conditional, situational, changeable. Joy is not an emotion. It is… Continue reading

  • Perception

    We all have a unique perception of the world around us. None of us have lived the same circumstances, the same way. Two people living the same events, will still have completely different memories, experiences, and emotions. They may have… Continue reading

  • Linked

    I had one of the hardest days I have had in awhile. I likely seemed unstable to strangers coming in and out. Familiar faces were kind, offering looks of sympathy and concern. My attempts to maintain a cheerful disposition, faltered… Continue reading

  • The Weight of Loss

    I won’t pretend to be an expert on this topic, because I’m not. I have not had the full weight of this kind of pain thrust upon me. I have had levels. I think to some degree, we all have.… Continue reading

  • Shattered

    Have you ever been so broken it was hard to breathe, eat, think, pray? Your humanity and the weight of all you can, have, and will experience, consumes you like a violent wave. Everything you knew shattered. The moment when… Continue reading

  • What is Love?

    There are so many things we are created to feel and know from the moment we come into existence. There is something in the way we can love that we will never fully comprehend. We can be abused, broken (physically,… Continue reading