Loneliness echoes through crowded rooms, seeking out me, the insecure. Moving to a town of closed cliques is an empty chasm of edges. Who am I? I lack definition, mirroring back what I think you want. Lonely is married year […]
Continue reading »It’s Personal
When I have an urge to betray a confidence, to gossip, or to tell something extremely personal to a total stranger, I stop and “Think.” ~ Courage to Change, page 16 I was twenty, the first time alone away from […]
Continue reading »Room for Feelings
Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I’ve given my feelings no room to exist. ~ Courage to Change, page 15 Feelings. Apprehensive, dread, foreboding, fright, mistrustful, panicked, petrified, scared. Suspicious, terrified, wary, worried. Aggravated, dismayed, disgruntled, displeased exasperated. Frustrated! Impatient, irritated, irked… […]
Continue reading »The Magic Pill
I’m not really sure I want the magic pill. ~ Joan B How have I tried to lose weight? Let me count the ways… Diet pills from the doctor at 13… Most weigh-and-pay groups, some multiple times… Carb blockers… Amphetamines […]
Continue reading »Convince Me I Can’t Save Him
Hebrews 6:7-8 (NLT) When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God’s blessing. But if a field bears thorns and thistles, it is useless. The farmer will soon condemn that […]
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