If I should die before I wake, teach my kids that a house is not a home; Even another person or relationship is not “home.” People are gifts merely on loan to us, not things we can own. Teach my kids to make a home for themselves within themselves; That...
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Maintain your routine. Get up at your regular time. Drink your coffee. Take your vitamins. Go to the gym. For the love of God, DO NOT miss the gym. This is most critical. Stop the bleeding. First, do no harm. Quit talking and texting when it is only causing...
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He fit. He was the first puzzle piece that slipped into her life and fell right in place. It happened so unexpectedly. She could still hardly believe it. He had been there all along. How had she not noticed?! He was so smart. She always knew she had to be...
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Some say I am naïve about love, but inside me there is a hope I just cannot shake. I know what I felt before, the love he and I had left remnants I will never forsake. I don’t want to hurt anymore, I don’t want my heart to break. The love I had...
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Shattered hearts don’t stem from circumstances, But often from spectacular, specific and utterly unrealistic expectations. Hope is healthy and faith-based. Hope holds space for the unexpected. Hope holds hearts in the wings, Waiting for things to change....
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Nikola Rosa is an artistic rendering of the soul that has come to exist after rising from the ashes. Her thoughts are from Nancy Gass, and yet they are in some ways, a different person entirely. We all have hearts and souls that are a deep ocean of complexity and this dichotomy is no different.