Roots & Hope
Soulful Reflections on Faith, Healing, and Young Adulting
Category: Self-Care
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I am a writer, and my first published piece was a love note to a boy named Antoine*. I saw him and instantly knew that he was the one. I mean he was cute, and that was enough. I never had a class with him or spoke a word to him. He had no idea…
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Life is not passing me by. I am neither solely existing nor a mistake. Rather, I am soulful and irreplaceable. I don’t need every 1st of January and birthday to validate that life is a celebration, that I can still dream. Every day, I get to experience newness and continuity. If only I can perceive…
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My memory can’t always give me the peace of a precise beginning. All I know is that my sadness started somewhere and stayed. From secret sadness to downpour sadness, from sadness with a clear cause to sadness with no perceivable why, I’ve felt them all. Shame bullies me into feeling worse. I am unworthy because…
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I see you holding that fear. You’re afraid to log off of every site and every app, because maybe, you’ll miss out on the modern things of life, and maybe you’ll have to release the steady noise of headlines, speculations, and global worries, but please, do not live in shame. You are not alone if…
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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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