Roots & Hope
Soulful Reflections on Faith, Healing, and Young Adulting
Category: encouragement
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Every day is an honest struggle to fight the fear that I am forever alone, a war against mental snipers and automatic thoughts: Always forgotten, Always forgettable, Always unlovable, Always broken, Always left out, Always invisible, Always boring, And ugly, And hurting. Always empty and half-enough. Nothing stabs me like the days I’m given…
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These days burst with quiet successes, no rounds of applause for being you and showing up. These years, you search for things you don’t always know how to name. You reach for the fame of being known by people who will see you, sliver by sliver until you’re bare, bare being, bare heart, bare scars,…
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been visiting Central Baptist Church in Northwest Detroit. During church today, the pastor taught about depression while referring to a Biblical story in 1 Kings 19: 3-18. He said something like, Being depressed is not a sin. It does not mean that I’m spiritually disconnected or a bad Christian.…
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Shivering in the driver’s seat of my parked hatchback, I called one of my best friends who picked up after the first ring. I confessed to her that I was struggling in every area of my life. I was afraid of not only becoming a failure but also looking like one to everyone else. **…
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In this age of social media, we often see the accomplishment but not the process. Beautiful posts of highlights about career advances, graduations, relationship milestones, and vacations may decorate our newsfeeds. It can seem inevitable to measure ourselves against these accessible snippets of others’ experiences. Yet, what if the heavy feeling of comparison could weigh…
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Being encouraged doesn’t come automatically. It requires a real push of intentionality. Thank you so much for joining this journey with me. ❤
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Today, I am nervous about what’s on my to-do list. To get out of bed, I had to tell myself that things are going to work out. “I can do this.” ❤
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I can spend so much time in my head, imagining and over thinking. I want to be more intentional about living in the present moment: being attentive to the beauty and intricacies of my surroundings, actively listening to others, meaningfully doing one thing at a time rather than trying to do everything at once,…
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While waiting for seating in a crowded restaurant, I talked to a friend about my dormant talent. Poetry. It seems like I haven’t written a poem in forever. Though it was an activity that once brought me joy, it’s been to put to rest in the past. So it seems. I’ve blamed writer’s block, not…
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Sometimes, I feel uneasy when few or no commitments are on my agenda for the day. I wonder, “Could I be doing more? Is my life not exciting enough?” There is this tugging pressure I feel to maintain activity and be “productive”. Yet, when I don’t make time for rest, I don’t feel like my…
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