February 18, 2024

It is only those who have never been truly listened to who demand that every person on the face of the planet find deep, meaningful connection with every word that tumbles from their lips.

Those who know someone understands them have no need for everyone to understand them.

February 21, 2024

People usually talk about hope as if it is an effortless thing.

You either have it or you don’t.

But maybe hope is actually like everything else — maybe you have to fight for it.

Maybe you have to exercise hope just like you do faith and love.

It’s not a mystical state of being that’s dropped into your head and heart.

It’s like a muscle.

February 29, 2024

There really is no such thing as an individual who finds and settles their sense of worth all on their own by self-talk and self-encouragement.

We discover who we are in large part by the reactions of those around us.

Which is why we share with others.

We share the things we dream about, the things we enjoy, the things we make.

We’re not just sharing in the hope that someone agrees with us or likes that thing.

We are sharing us, the core of who we are, and we’re hoping that someone will tell us that they see US, that they find joy and happiness in US.

April 29, 2024

Information and facts.

Those seem to be the cornerstone of Western culture.

Yet information is not necessarily knowledge and facts are not necessarily truth.

May 10, 2024

The consequences of redemption are just a harrowing in their own way as the consequences of refusing to repent.

June 13, 2024

What is strength?

Is strength getting up in everyon'e’s face and screaming that every individual on the face of the planet must acknowledge that you matter?

Or is strength persevering in the often hard work of healing, learning how to be a true human being even when you are confronted by those who insist on taking their pain out on you?