Roots & Hope
Soulful Reflections on Faith, Healing, and Young Adulting
Category: encouragement
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When I feel like a failure, I shall live. When I feel alone, I shall live. When tragedies touch my life, I shall live. When my story feels insufficient, I shall live. When worries trouble me, I shall live. When I feel like giving up, I will keep going because I shall live.
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I used to fear that you were disgusted with these holes across my heart. I used to worry that my memories of feeling alone, forgotten and rejected dug so much out of me that I was empty. But how amazing you are: you see me based on the wholeness of your love, offering me forgiveness,…
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Impressed with himself, he announces his worth with a loud recitation of awards and accomplishments and important people he knows. Satisfied, he finishes his speech, and asks me, “So what do you do?”, almost as if he is genuine, almost like he does not know that it is obvious he is testing my value. Up…
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Give yourself time to get through it and learn from it, to cry and cuss and wonder how you’ll overcome. You don’t have to know how to summarize the beauty of your struggle right away. You don’t have to worry that your gift for uplifting an open heart and a hungry ear will expire soon.…
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Lord, Today is a new day. Thank you for waking me up to see it. Thank you for not allowing yesterday’s troubles to defeat me. Thank you for being my reason to go on in victory. Today, I can begin to change how I speak to myself. I can begin to change how I treat…
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Lord, I need your help. Help me to embrace the warmth of your hand on my life. Help me to remember that your plans are to prosper me and not to harm me, to give me a future and a hope. Help me to believe that I matter to you; you know the count of…
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I am proud of you. I am overwhelmed with gladness because you are still here, breathing and living and moving. I admire what courage looks like in your life, in your now. I am proud of you for all the challenges you have already overcome, some of which I may not ever know or understand.…
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For years, I have held a huge fear of what others think of me. Social situations, regardless of scope, have routinely tackled my well-being. Whether always worrying that someone doesn’t like me or feeling panicked at a party, I am skilled at social anxiety. Amazingly though, I am beginning to notice a shift in my…
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I feel comically naked and tremendously plain. It is rare for me to go any day without adorning myself with earrings. A girl of simplicity, in some ways, I definitely don’t have the most fashion sense. My closet is minimalistic with the exception of “show OUT” items for special occasions 😂. So long as I…
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Sometimes, I know that being alone and whole at the same time is possible. Sometimes, lessons only heal me when I hear them in solitude. Sometimes, adventure only comes alive when I follow the pace of my own schedule and curiosity. Sometimes, I need to be anonymous to everyone in my surroundings except for God…
Roots & Hope 