As my heart becomes more awakened, so do my fears. And alongside the attempts to step out and risk again, to live daringly, I have faced a swarm of lies reminding me to sit down. What if they see me? What if I’m not good enough? What if they don’t like what they see? I am…
I stood there, stunned, and stared at the cool waterfall beside me. It was an eerie sound…the silence. No more voices, or demands and shrills of contempt. I breathed in the silence and felt relief. The weight on my shoulders felt empty, no longer a dead weight that I carried around. There was no one…
Dreams are like seeds. They are symbolic of new life, new strategies, and fresh ideas. Dreams begin to awaken within us when we entertain a new way of thinking, a potential idea, that feels impossible to accomplish from where we stand today. They are beautiful in the beginning, naive and full of hope. The passion…
After countless years of being lost out at sea, it was time to come back to the shore. He was waiting there for me, beckoning me back in. I warily lugged in my anchor and hoped that this time the waves would be on my side, and drift me in. It had been a long…
I sat there, slumped over in my chair, feeling depleted. From across the shadows, I heard “If you could see Me, face to face right now, what would you ask Me?” Without hesitation, the questions flew off my tongue as if they had already been formed, “Where are you?! How did I get back here?…
An allegory: Pain as an unexpected guest… I was standing in my kitchen one day when a tiny black scorpion scurried across the countertop. I couldn’t believe that a creature like that would even be in my house! I wanted to get rid of it fast so I grabbed for anything to throw at it,…
Even as an adult, I was still feeling paralyzed by ghosts from my past. I was trying to move forward, and do life well, but I felt like a prisoner inside of my own mind, and could not figure out why. I didn’t understand how something from decades ago could still be haunting me today. …
An allegory about the healing of the soul… As I stumbled through the cave, the Man with the flashlight continued to lead me down a dark corridor. I had no idea this hallway was even here. It was cold and damp, full of cobwebs that appeared to have been growing for years. We weaved through…
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” – Maya Angelou Over the past few years, I have been opening up a part of myself that I never wanted to see again. It started when I began seeing a counselor to help me “deal” with the current problems in my…
Sweat was dripping down my face as I kneeled in the dirt and my thoughts were spinning wildly in the scorching sun. “Where are we?” I wondered as I dug. “What on earth are we looking for?” Love was kneeled beside me in the dirt, digging alongside. He hadn’t said a word since we got here,…