Category: Personal Growth
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Fear Only Exists With Your Permission
When Silence Becomes Too Heavy to Carry I remember when I first started blogging in 2020. It was born out of pain and a deep need to finally express myself. For years, it felt like my mouth was muzzled. I was either directly told to stay silent about the things that bothered me or indirectly…
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Moving, But Going Nowhere
Photo by Silje Roseneng on Unsplash Story Time After a pleasant college visit in Bangor, Maine, a father and daughter hopped into their car and trusted their GPS to lead them back to the rental return, because what could possibly go wrong? As the drive stretched on and the scenery shifted from charming to middle-of-nowhere,…
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The Cost Of Ignorance
STORY TIME Joshua was an honor-roll student, the kind who collected scholarships like trophies. He topped every class, graduated valedictorian, and everyone who met him knew he was on the path to greatness. When he visited home on the weekends, his family treated him like a local celebrity. At the grocery store, at church, even…
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Trapped, Though The Prison Cell is Wide Open
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? I find it interesting that this prompt is so deeply aligned with my current reflective process. Because I can be hard on myself I tend to spend a lot of time dwelling on the past. I replay events in my head and…
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Revenge Didn’t Expose Them, It Exposed Me
Photograph by Marvel/ Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/ Everett Story Time Before I tell you this story, say after me:“I read, but I don’t judge.” No?Okay… we’ll circle back to that later. A Classroom That Tested My Sanctification Years ago, while teaching at a middle school, I had that class. You know the one; the…
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The Greatest Gift
What is the greatest gift someone could give you? The greatest gift any human could give me is their time. When someone is willing to spend quality time with me it communicates their love, commitment, and sometimes their sacrifice. To give up something that you will not be able to retrieve after it’s spent (one’s…
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When It Hurts To Believe
If I Should Be Honest… I don’t know about you, but this year was hard. It stretched me in so many ways, and when I thought I couldn’t be stretched any further, I was pulled all the more. There were times I felt like I would break. My health was affected, my faith was questioned,…
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The Doll I Never Played With
The Gift That Changed Everything I’ve probably told this story a million times already- but you get to hear it for the million-and-one time. When I was a little girl, I wanted a doll for Christmas. It was probably one of those dolls that sang or lit up when you pressed a button, but if…
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When Victims Become Villains
STORY TIME Sandra, a mother of five, began her life with hope; the kind of hope that feels solid and sure. The father of her children proposed, promising forever. He was hardworking, loving, and kind; everything she had ever wanted in a man. Life felt aligned. Like it was finally making sense. Then he got…
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When Your Mindset Doesn’t Match Your Miracle
Story Time Toni grew up in a very poor family. They struggled to make ends meet. Being homeless was not foreign to him. At every stage of life, he learned to master being content with the little he had.One day, a distant relative who lived in the city paid the family a visit. After noticing…