Once Easter arrives it always feels like spring is truly here. We celebrated the day with family, Easter egg hunts, and lots of love. On the night before Easter, after I tucked my babies into bed, I told them the story of the Resurrection for the first time. Although they had heard it in church beore, I never got into it with them because I was waiting for my heart…
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heart spill // december
Read moreA few months ago, I returned to therapy after nearly ten years away. I’m seeing the therapist who changed my life all of those years ago. I’d been trying to handle “it all” on my own for a very long time. Then one day I…
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Mountain Laurel and Thoughts on Faith
Read more“If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there your hand will lead me.” –Psalm 139 One of the hardiest plants on our little mountain is mountain laurel. Mountain laurel is a bush with gnarly, winding limbs. Even the very small mountain…
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Poetry Friday: Last night, as I was sleeping | Antonio Machado
Read moreLast night, as I was sleeping | Antonio Machado Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt — marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a…
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Destroy what destroys you.
Read moreEverything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do. —Bob Dylan Recently a gracious friend featured my words in his essay, How we see. In it, I said that my journey through crippling depression was like crossing a river. There are two…
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Waiting for a Sign
Read moreI’ve been cleaning out my Google Docs today and I stumbled across a little note that I wrote to myself. I thought you might get something from it, too. Intentions. Saturday, July 31st, 2010: To gain clarity through peace of mind and heart. To quiet…
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There will be hard days.
Read moreA Little Note to My Friends Who Need It, There might will be hard days in your life. And hard weeks. And hard months. And hard years. Hard times will rise up from the depths and try hard to drag you back down there with…
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Fate vs. Freewill: How to Fulfill Your Life’s Purpose
Read moreWhat determines the course of our lives? Is it fate? Are our life paths predetermined by a higher power? Or is it freewill? Are we the masters of our own destinies in a random universe? At least once a day, I say: “Everything happens for…
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Forget Resolutions, Let’s Talk About Weakness
Read moreWhether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Weakness—we all have one (or three or fifty). Whether you’re Superman, me, or you—you know what it is. In fact, you’ve probably got a few of them. Mine (in no particular order) are:…