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The Blanket
On my placement day, my “Coming Home Day,” my biological family sent with me several baby outfits, several blankets, and a doll. As a baby my Adoptive Mother dressed me in the outfits for a few special occasions or church. The doll is in my nightstand. My Mom used the blankets. They were present in…
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The Script
One of the hardest problems with being diagnosed as neuro divergent in middle age is that you have created an entire life while masking that you cannot maintain anymore. I spent so many years memorizing a script to survive. The last four years provided so many answers while simultaneously making everything come undone.But life doesn’t…
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Fire to Fearful and Back Again
*Swear warning*I had a dream a few nights ago.It was one of those dreams where you are watching yourself.It was a conversation with a friend who deeply hurt me.My brain created the perfect apology for her to say… therapy in my own head.As I watched, I thought my response would be my usual spineless garbage.I…
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Unholiness
I lived so long surrounded by a shroud of unholiness that confined me into someone I was not. I have spent so long living into what I’ve been told is holy.From blind obedience to authority.To purity culture.To capitalistic productivity.To marital submission. At the end of every one of those roads I found death…of my faith,…
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The Lord’s Name
“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” – Genesis 1:31“Every good and perfect gift is from above…” – James 1:17“For everything created by God is good…” – 1 Timothy 4:4“For I know the plans I have for you…plans to prosper you and not to harm you…” – Jeremiah 29:11Here’s the…
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