Recent Reflections…
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Eating Chinese in the Park n Ride
I’m sitting in the Park-n-Ride parking lot eating Chinese food out of a paper box because home doesn’t feel like…
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Listening for God in the Ache
This morning I woke up with that familiar weight sitting beneath my ribs—an ache I’ve tried so hard to pretend…
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Morning Stillness
I love mornings like this — quiet, still, untouched. The snow laying its soft, safe blanket over the earth, the…
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A Softer Season Coming
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and for the first time in a while, I’m genuinely excited to go home. I’m…
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A Home I Still Haven’t Found
Ever since I was little, I dreamed of a home. A real one. A place that felt warm and steady,…
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The Contrast
I want to stop writing about you. Truly. I want my journal to finally become a place for the parts…
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Journal Entry
I don’t even know where to put all of this anymore. The emotions, the confusion, the hurt — they feel…
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On Hatred, Hurt, and the Men in the Front Seat
Tonight, as we drive back toward Colorado, I can’t shake the storm inside my chest. It feels ugly and heavy,…
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On The Way Home
I’m on my way home now, and I don’t feel as happy about it as I thought I would. Maybe…
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What Love Is, and What It Is Not
Tonight in the tree, another hunt was ruined — not by silence or weather, but by words that pierced deeper…
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Morning in the Stand
Here I stand, in another stand. I’ve seen so many deer, yet my opportunity has not come. Still, this morning—though…
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Rain and Gratitude
It’s cold, and it’s raining so hard that my phone can barely stay dry long enough for me to write…
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November 7 – Evening Prayer in the Woods
Tonight my prayer was simple, but it came from a deep place in me: Lord, I really do want to…
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The Grace That Arrives After Surrender
There’s a strange paradox I keep seeing play out in my life — that somehow, when I finally give up…
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The Weight of Noise
I never want to become one of those people who has to fill every possible moment with sound. There’s something…
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The Tree and the Truth
It takes everything in me to remember grace — to not let anger harden me. Hate only rusts the heart,…
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A Different Side of Things
I thought I’d have so much time to journal while sitting in these tree stands, but my hands have mostly…
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The Weight of It All
Clay’s anxiety eats at me, at him, and at us. The longer we’re together, the more I see the angsty…
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Coming Back to Myself
Well hey — it’s been a while, but I’m so happy to have a place to spill my thoughts again.…
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