Tag: love
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My Past Self Would Be Proud: I Finally Learned to Let Go
What’s something you’ve done that your past self would be proud of? View all responses Something my past self would be proud of? Learning that I don’t have to fix everything I didn’t break. I’ve spent so much of my life loving hard, holding on, and hoping I could somehow bring people back together, but…
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We Grew Up Together… So How Did We Become Strangers? (Part 3)
Part 3: It Stops With Me… What I Refuse to Pass Down At the end of Part 2, I finally had to face a truth I didn’t necessarily want to accept: Maybe I was trying to heal something that was never mine to fix. For a long time, I think part of me believed that…
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We Grew Up Together… So How Did We Become Strangers? (Part 2)
When Family Drama Becomes the Next Generation’s Burden At the end of Part 1, I said something that has been sitting heavy on my heart… I wasn’t the only one losing my cousins. My sons were losing theirs too. And maybe that’s the part that hurts me the most. Because I know what it feels…
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We Grew Up Together… So How Did We Become Strangers? (Part 1)
When My Cousins Were My Sisters When you’re a kid, nobody tells you that some of the people you can’t imagine living without might one day become people you barely talk to. Nobody tells you that the sleepovers will eventually stop. That Grandma’s house won’t always feel the same. That everybody will grow up, have…
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Part 3: My Rebirth
Living My Life Out Loud People often ask what church hurt taught me. My answer surprises them. It didn’t teach me to stop believing in God. It taught me to stop letting other people define my relationship with Him. It taught me something even bigger. Never hand someone else the pen and let them write…
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Some People Are Seasons
The Friendship That Changed Me Forever (Part 2) “Sometimes God gives us a second chance, not because He intends for things to last forever, but because there are lessons we couldn’t learn the first time around.” Have you ever reunited with someone after years apart and thought, “Yep… this is exactly how it was supposed…
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The Girl with the Big Glasses
The Friendship That Changed Me Forever (Part 1) How good is your memory? I mean, really. Do you remember the first friend you ever made? Not the one you met in middle school. Not the coworker you text memes to every Tuesday. I’m talking about your very first friend. The one whose name instantly takes…
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The Day the Music Stopped (PART 3)
Picture this… There was once a woman whose perfume could drift through a room and instantly make me feel safe. The kind of perfume that didn’t just smell good, it smelled like home. Her hugs were warm enough to melt away your worries, and her laugh? Whew. Her laugh deserved its own radio station. It…
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From Daddy Damaged to Daddy Distant (PART 2)
It’s crazy how life can flip on you. One minute, you’re a baby laid up on your daddy’s chest, safe, warm, and loved… and the next, you’re grieving the very man who was your first love, your daddy. There are parts of my childhood with him that I don’t even remember… but oh, I’ve heard…
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I Should’ve Stayed In A Child’s Place (PART 1)
Isn’t it funny how when we’re young, we can’t WAIT to grow up… and then the moment we get here, we realize we made a very unqualified, very rushed decision? Like… who approved this? I remember my mom used to say this one line that used to get under my skin every single time:“Stay in…