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Parenting Through Fear
I used to be fearless. Well, maybe not completely fearless, worries and doubts still plagued me, but overall my philosophy on life was: You can’t let your fear paralyze you. You have to move forward and choose your own adventure. And so I did. Throughout my early to mid-twenties I threw aside normal ideas of Continue reading
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When I Grow Up Too Slow
I’ve always had a bit of a disdain for predicability. As much as a try to avoid cliches like the greek yogurt in my fridge that I bought when I was still pregnant, I still cling to them, refusing to throw them away out of some kind of feral need for comfort. As much as Continue reading
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Divine Unknowns
In the stillness of the morningI close my eyesand feel covered by a peacethat warms the sensitiveskin of my soulfragile and yearning for comforta warm cup of obsoletesin a room of shivering uncertainties I don’t have a cluebut I’ll stay inside the mysterythis land of unknownsit’s wild and open and free I’d rather be here Continue reading
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The Three Births of Aurelia Claire
It’s close to four in the morning and I am awakened by the sound of my daughter crying. I slowly emerge out of a sleepy haze, rolling over to get out of bed. I pick my baby up out of her bassinet and try to comfort her. Her cry is loud now, reverberating across a silent Continue reading
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37 Weeks
I am not so sure who I am anymore, caught up in another like this. The right colors, the right softness, a ready nest. That is what I am consumed with. It’s weird and cliché, and all too real at once. I get it now, this deafening urge to make a safe space for my Continue reading
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Another Grateful List
Once in a while I like to shake myself out of my ordinary jump-right-to-the-next-thing mentality and pause for a moment to be thankful. The end of May is as good of a time as the end of November, maybe even better. I’ve been worrying a bunch lately and things seem overwhelming to me, then just Continue reading
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As the World Explodes with Love
I keep anticipating that moment outside time when my body releases yours after it has held you so tight and you become your own but how can I anticipate a bright star coming into existence across a galaxy how do I anticipate seeing you an oh-so-familiar stranger part me part the love of Continue reading
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From a Battle Cry to a Peaceful Sigh
I had never felt such a deep sense of purpose as when Ron Luce announced in 2005 that we had 4-5 years to save the world. I was 19, an intern at Teen Mania Ministries just finishing my first year. I was full of fire, wide-eyed and ready for more action. According to his passionate Continue reading
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These Unfettered Lines
my story begins not-so-right fighting and biting my way out of the night aware of having a face that wasn’t my own obsessed with avoiding being alone pushing, squeezing trying to work on my breathing never believing I could really make it out on time but this is how I came Continue reading
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Your New Eyes
It’s about time for a new life to see the world anew to see through that life precious and in awe you see, I’m afraid I have gotten old not in body but in soul the beauty which used to make me gasp hardly makes me turn my head you see, I’m afraid Continue reading
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