Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
“There’s an ocean inside my head Waves that don’t ever rest This kind of beauty ain’t ordinary You look, but do you really see? Won’t you take your time on me? ‘Cause we got nowhere else to be.” –Vance Joy The last gift my daughters opened on Christmas morning was from my parents. Inside the box was a tropical beach…
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“I met you in the dark, you lit me up. You made me feel as though I was enough.” -James Arthur, Say You Won’t Let Go When I referred back to a very dark night I had one year ago in a recent post, I received an apology from one of my readers. “Please forgive me,” she wrote, “At the…
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“Gravity has taken better men than me Now how can that be? Just keep me where the light is Just keep me where the light is.” -John Mayer, Gravity A few weeks ago, Avery found her beloved hamster curled in a ball, cold and unmoving. She came to me in urgency, praying that she somehow misinterpreted the lifelessness of Mochi’s…
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“We have not been directly exposed to the trauma scene, but we hear the story told with such intensity, or we hear similar stories so often, or we have the gift and curse of extreme empathy and we suffer. We feel the feelings of our clients. We experience their fears. We dream their dreams. Eventually, we lose a certain spark…
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“Breathe in, breathe out, Move on and break down, If everyone goes away, I will stay.” –Mat Kearney My daughters and I traveled 500 hundred miles last week to visit my parents in Florida. The timing felt divine. My heavy heart knew I needed to retreat … to be quiet … to shut out the noise. I knew I was…
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“I need a sign to let me know you’re here ‘Cause my TV set just keeps it all from being clear. I want a reason for the way things have to be. I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.” -Train, Calling All Angels On Tuesday night at dinner, my eleven-year-old daughter Avery…
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