different version

Blindsided
Confusion all too simply clear
You, me
I wasn’t even aware of
the dance
Hot-mama, the girls say
Sugar-daddy lass
So crass, the formulaic crystal house
They use to enclose
this sweet exchange
And all I’m left with is
the dream of parallel universes
for all the different boys
Where I make all things right
Where this two-step dance
Ends in romance
A parallel universe, complete
With a different version of [...]

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re-vision

Get out of my head
You walked away
Erase the years
Erase the laughter
The tears, the anger
Ease the pain your joy brings
Irony, sweet and biting
You became all you promised you’d never be
And me, I’m left holding the bag
Why, why do this
Addiction, cyclical, the drugs just change faces
Love, passion, insecurity
Your new high
Vandalizing all that is good
And all that you [...]

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healing

Completely healed.
This particular album and artist was one of my favorites, but it was tied to a man (my boyfriend at the time) who broke my heart; of course, I let him. Learned a lot in the years since…but…I used to be able to not listen to this music without deep sorrow even though [...]

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the varying faces of grief

Grieving the loss of a close friendship; seasons come, seasons go and so I must adjust.
“I don’t need him” I state to a friend to try to help provide self comfort in the face of this painful loss.
“Yes you do; you just aren’t dependent upon him; but you need him; that’s why this loss is [...]

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sleep

Disconnect.
Keep me compartmentalized
Neatly wrapped up in a bow,
Resting on the dusty recesses of your shelf
Pull out when you desire;
Then shove back when it’s inconvenient.
Blind…dichotomistic…two faces to every man.
Two sides to every story.
Here, there, everywhere.
Your charm can only get you so far.
When does the facade fail?
How long until you wake up
Or is this a permanent sleep?

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men and women

I mentioned to one of my best friends he should read For Men Only to help him understand half of our disagreements over the years…I’ve read For Women Only to help me understand the male mind and it was insightful and every year that I re-read it, it’s a great refresher course for me. [...]

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friends

I want to be everything, to everyone.
I know I cannot, but this does not seem, yet, to pervade my internal thought life or the emotional angst when I realize, yet again, I am not, cannot, and will not be able to meet others’ needs.
A dear friend who moved away from friends and family wants a [...]

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raw

in a smashing pumpkins’ mood…one of their songs just came on…aptly reflects my demeanor.
to say i’m having a rough time would be an understatement.
to say God is always faithful is a reality.
–
sometimes i just need someone to hold me.
sometimes i wish God had physical arms.
but taking one day at a time.
it’s been one of the [...]

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God’s love in human form

I’ve spent the last half hour alternating between quietly crying and sobbing, reading this story.
What do I say to the author but acknowledgment of the grief I feel for him and his family and the promise to pray for them as the Holy Spirit brings them to mind?
His story stirs up so many emotions and [...]

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question

What do you do to feel alive?

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question

Can you be in love with two people at the same time?

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waiting

A random poem I found while cleaning out some paperwork from my life…I don’t entirely agree with the underlying theology espoused here, but overall, I think it has some gems. No idea who wrote it or even where or how I have it my possession. :) But thought I’d share.

“In God’s Time”
Everyone longs [...]

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compassion in a broken world

And you want to know the insidious thing about my own heart?
I received the prayer request to a group email list-serve that I administer, and was set to approve it for mass distribution and was numb and thought to myself “I’ll pray for this student and her family” until I processed this was a student [...]

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pray

I came home last night to find out that a student from a neighboring campus was in a terrible accident.  Her name is Ruth.  She is currently in a drug-induced coma with broken ribs, punctured lungs, a punctured colon, severed vertebrae, and a blood clot in her brain.
And all I can do right now is…pray.
I [...]

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ramblings on language and the heart

life is so strange, sometimes.
i’m really trying to wrap my mind around it.
and i’m just plain hungry for some c.s. lewis. i haven’t taken any proper time with his writings lately and i’m feeling a drought.
i made a crustless pumpkin pie tonight. i’ve been saying i’d make one since february…heh. finally made [...]

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being the eldest

Wow.
So today, just now, I quickly had tears well. I’m “spring cleaning” and came across a lot of handmade gifts from my younger brother who is seventeen years my junior, and his gift bag, handpainted, had a note attached to it that read, “i hope you will have a merry christmas with us.”
Grah.
This little boy [...]

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;)

itching to dance…
“let’s go ouuuuuuuuuuu-t tonight!”
(rent)
excited about a lot of things. nervous, a bit…well…”scared” isn’t the word…a bit apprehensive about how everything shall work…time shall tell…preparing to say a lot of “goodbyes”…excited about the next steps…hungry for life.
my mother was right…she told me that because i had given so much of my time helping [...]

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on sin

A letter.
[Take it or leave it. Thoughts free-flow...]
I Turn Everything Over (Switchfoot)
Monday found me on my knees again
Breathing You in
To blur the lines that mark where I begin
And where You end
No use in trying to pretend
Come take me again
‘Cause rumor has it I’m not who I’ve been
Come define me

What can we do
If the rumors [...]

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love

want you to know that i still love you
india arie
I think love never ends…it morphs, changes, but most often, never truly ends…our ways of dealing with it force us to compartmentalize, ignore, or bury it when it must change nature…maybe we use such absolutist terms to help us deal with the changes and pain or [...]

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passion

Writing calls my heart.
Work responsibilities demand my attention.
And such is life.
What passion calls you? In what do you consistently and thoroughly get lost? What breathes life into you, sustains you, feeds your soul? Expands your mind, nourishes your body?
What are you passionate about?

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question

What are the qualifications for being engaged? A ring and a date? The intentions to marry? The desire to marry?
Give me a black and white answer, please. ;)
A well-known radio personality that I listened to years ago harps on the ring and a date set for the ceremony as being the [...]

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suffering

Why do we always seem to want to run from suffering?
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It seems pain and suffering produce a lot of the best music, writing and art in this world.
A bit unrelated but perhaps not.
Where would we be without pain and suffering to be the inspiration? And where would joy, euphoria and happiness [...]

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flexibility

life never ceases to surprise me.
–
surprise!
and it rolls on.
barely time to catch my breath.
roll with it.
smile.
and kiss the brand new day.
this is the stuff of life.
surprises you never saw coming.
emotional roulette or fodder for laughter?
perhaps both.
grieve the past.
ghosts breeze in to say “hello.”
clean out the closets.
demons want to stay.
it’s your choice to play host
or [...]

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letters

There is something incredibly romantic and lovely about receiving a handwritten letter in the mail in today’s age of emails, text messages, phone calls and IM chats.
I received such a gift last night; flew upstairs delightedly to open it.
I think I’m an old fashion girl at heart.
=)
Whenever friends send me cards through [...]

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question re weddings

How important is it for friends and extended family to be a part of the wedding ceremony itself? Would you feel gypped if one of your best friends or family members decided to get married in a private, small ceremony and then celebrated on a later date with a big but low-key, inexpensive reception/party? [...]

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irony is thick

So I was asked indirectly by someone giving marriage counseling to do an informal session with two of my dearest friends who are getting married later this summer (wedding number two of this summer season, bringing the count up to six weddings I’ve stood up in so far ;P).
I find this highly amusing and a [...]

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paradigm shift

Amazing grace.
It amazes me how a simple paradigm shift happens, and all of a sudden, you understand a word and a whole system of theology much differently – or perhaps more deeply.
I feel as if the last few months, I have been experiencing grace on a whole new level.
Grace.
A word that used to be [...]

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on love and God

There is no reason to suppose that self-consciousness, the recognition of a creature by itself as a “self,” can exist except in contrast with an “other,” a something which is not the self. It is against an environment and preferably a social environment, an environment of other selves, that the awareness of Myself stands out. [...]

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one step forward in figuring this all out? maybe? ;)

My thoughts from three and a half years ago on male-female relationships, that recently became the topic of comments in response to this question I posted.

i don’t trust myself
I don’t trust anything anymore except Jesus Christ. I am thankful that the object of my faith is trustworthy and true.
But I am realizing how easy [...]

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instruction

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. – Proverbs 3:3

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