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I’ve been finding it harder to write lately. There are always a million thoughts going on in my head, of things I want to write about but when I sit down to get them all out, I can’t. The phrases, “nobody cares”, “whats the point”, and “what you write about isn’t important” ring louder than…

I grew up with a group of friends and we were inseparable. It started out with two of us in kindergarten, then it grew to 3 by 1st grade, and by the time we reached middle school, there were 6 of us. All of our classmates knew we were a group and that was that.…

Sometimes the hurt gets to be too much. Sometimes  with the weight of the sin and darkness of the world, it actually feels like you’ve shrunk a couple of inches. Sometimes our heart physically aches so bad we feel like we may never come up for air. Y’all ever feel this way? All I’ve heard…

For the past couple of years, I’ve had a theme of the year. This is something I’ve done for myself to keep my focus where it needs to be. I have a whiteboard on my bedroom door and I write a quote or a verse that has to do with the theme. In 2016, my…

Hello November! Here begins a season of craziness, a season of joy, a season of reflection, a season of continuing grief. I really do love the holidays, but when November begins, the memories set in. November 13, is my Mom’s birthday. This year she would’ve been 60 years old and I’ve been catching myself thinking…

There are too many times that I focus on things that I don’t have. I spend my days worried about the moments that have yet to happen, experiences that have been hoped for and are still “not yet”, and I sit and wallow in pity because I’m not where I want to be. But because…

I care way too much about what people think of me. Like, it’s borderline toxic the way that I care too much. I thought this was something that I had overcome, but it hit me today that it’s still a major issue for me. Any of y’all ever feel that way too? You feel like…

I feel as though I talk about God’s love a lot on here. And if it seems that way to y’all too, I’m starting to realize why I talk about it so much. Although I’ve been a believer since I was 16 years old, I’ve just started to realize the depth of Christ love is…

Believe it or not, I’ve got quite a pride issue. I would rather fight tooth and nail to figure something out myself before I ask for help. I would rather hold everything in, instead of letting people in on things so that I don’t have to handle them myself. I would rather try to act…

What do we do when things happen that aren’t in our plans? When parents die seemingly out of no where? When one day a family member is fine and the next they’re fighting for their life? What do we do y’all, when we feel like we’ve lost all sense of the world around us? When…