grief
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Healing Through Grief: Embracing Complicated Loss
The Call that Changed Everything… February 5, 2025 I looked over at the dining table.My heart dropped, and simultaneously began to race,as my youngest son’s voiceseemed to fade into silence.A silence replaced bya once-familiar ringtone —now strangely foreign.A ghost note.A… Continue reading
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Navigating Self-Discovery: Lessons from the River
Let’s honor the truth of the in-between—the sacred liminality of choosing yourself while still unlearning the reflex to abandon yourself. For the one who used to call it devotion when it was really self-erasure. Mid-River Mercy: Choosing Myself While Still… Continue reading
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Uncaging Sacredness: The Art of Liberation
🔥 Formless Faith: The Uncaged Sacred My altar became a canvas. My prayer, a painting. My freedom, a map without permission. There’s a moment in the spiritual path where you stop trying to fit back into what broke you. I’ve… Continue reading
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A Grandfather’s Hands
“To the One Who Built with Love” You, whom I never met—and yet, you hold me.You carved not just wood,but a vessel of memory,a hearth for healing,a shrine for the unseen. In this sacred space, I feel you.In the hush… Continue reading
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The photo frame without a face…
The Unknown, The Unnamed, The Forgotten, The Exiled… This empty frame is a threshold within my altar. It is the breath between names, the silence between stories. It is where absence is made sacred. And this I say:🕯️ To the… Continue reading
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A deeply layered ache
…a tender, deeply layered ache I am holding. My reaction is not just about a forgotten date—it’s about what that date symbolizes. Birthdays, especially of our children, are etched into us not just as facts, but as thresholds of love,… Continue reading
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