The Father gazes into the eyes of his child as she climbs up into his lap. He cups her face in the palm of his scarred up hands with holes and says, Do you know how much I love you? So, so much. His love swallows up everything else. The pain, the regret. Thoughts of […]
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I was cold. Shivering cold. You know, the kind of cold no matter how many layers you put on you can’t shake it. And then, I thought I should look within the chill of my heart. Underneath my painted on smile and telling myself, “You’re good.” I peeled back the calloused state of my heart
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She looked me in the eye while admitting her heart was removed from where it needed to be, at home with the marriage she entered into 12 years prior. Explaining the struggle of her heart, her walk with God and all her surfacing childhood issues, she said, “I don’t even know how I got here.”
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Disclosure: (This article is not condoning divorce or hitting a few bumps and throwing the towel in and quitting. This is for those who have tried with exhaustion every means possible to sustain and restore a relationship. It takes both parties fully committed to making a relationship work well.) Velcro is incredible. The capacity to
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Before my eyes were barely pried open with caffeine I stumbled to my chair to verbalize what was pressing on my heart. I decided to pray about the day before it could threaten to unravel. Isn’t it amazing how we can determine to not obsess over a pressing need only to find yourself preoccupied with
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