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The Waves Washed it Away

Before my beach trip, I realized I had been operating on autopilot for far too long. So busy moving, producing, and responding to life that I had slowly become disconnected from myself. My patience was wearing thin. My energy was depleted. My days had become predictable rhythms of responsibility and routine. I didn’t realize how much of me was running on empty. But there is something sacred about the beach. The sound of the waves. The feel of the sand beneath your feet. The cool breeze. The warmth of the sun. For me, it all becomes a sanctuary—a place where creation reminds me of the Creator. My grandson and I spent six uninterrupted hours on that shoreline, disconnected from the noise of civilization and fully present in the moment. No agendas. No pressure. No distractions. Just space to be. And somewhere between the crashing waves and the endless horizon, something shifted. I believe we were both releasing what we didn’t need and receiving what we did. Mental clutter was cleare...

Missing on Purpose

As an introvert, I recharge in isolation. I have to disappear sometimes— go missing from the noise, disconnect from the world just long enough to reconnect. I retreat into the quiet— into prayer, reflection, meditation, where silence becomes medicine and stillness becomes strategy. My restoration can’t be rushed. It has to be intentional, sacred, uninterrupted. A full reset of mind, body, and spirit. And now, standing at the midpoint of the year, the timing feels divine. I’m ready to slow down long enough to hear myself again. Ready to sleep in without guilt, press my feet into warm sand, tilt my face toward the sun, and let nature remind me that healing doesn’t always arrive loudly. After spending the first quarter filtering life through hurt, disappointment, and survival mode, I’m ready for a different lens. I’m ready to release what exhausted me. Ready to stop romanticizing routines that kept me small. Ready to challenge what’s familiar, walk away from emotio...

After Survival, Then What?

After two weeks of unpacking the last session, my soul was relieved to meet my therapist’s couch again this morning. Crying has never come naturally for me, but exhaustion softened every wall I built to survive, and for once, I let the tears fall without apologizing for them. I think I cried holy tears — for the little girl who learned to endure before she learned to rest, for the unseen woman who carried worlds on her back while silently breaking underneath them, and for the “silent partner” who poured love from empty wells until abandonment, disappointment, and depletion became familiar companions. When my therapist asked about my prayer life, I mistook the question for judgment. So I offered polished prayers — careful words, safe words, the kind that sound faithful without requiring vulnerability. But she challenged me to pray differently. Not just for strength, endurance, and resiliency but for protection as well. Because healing at t...

Where The Bodies Are Buried

Everyone loves a beautifully weaved redemption story— the kind wrapped in applause, stitched together with survival, polished enough to make pain look poetic. But this is not a story. This is real life. My life. There’s a narrative we rehearse so often it becomes a ritual— a sedative disguised as safety. A false womb. A padded prison. A dim-lit shelter where we convince ourselves that hidden means healed. So we stay covered. Covered from truth. Covered from exposure. Covered from the God who keeps calling us out of hiding. And we cling to repetition because repetition feels holy when fear is preaching. We tell ourselves the outside world is only destruction, only danger, only teeth waiting to consume us— yet never question whether the real death has been happening within. Because we reach for weapons before we understand the war. We fight shadows without discerning spirits. Swinging at flesh while darkness feeds from our blindness. Truth is— everyone believes in something. ...