Tag: pain
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Letting you go
Surely, letting go is hard. But letting go of a person God put in your life and giving them back to the Lord takes divine strength & none of it makes any sense. But. The Lord our God is faithful til the end. I will rest in that promise.
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Blissfully Broken
Today, I am reminded they no longer control me. Maybe I am broken, but I am blissfully broken. The mind is a powerful thing. Will. I had it. I wanted to survive. I did. I endured. I prayed. God answered. I didn’t get to where I am today because this life was handed to me.…
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The ugly cry
The weather is finally starting to get better and stay good. Well, I’m just keeping my fingers crossed. I’m thankful for these sunny days. They’re somehow lifting up my spirits. I went for a walk today. Turned into a 5 mile walk. I started crying. Honestly I was sobbing, you know that ugly cry. Yea,…
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Today is a day from Heaven
Today is a day from Heaven. Thank you Jesus for my Orchid. Thank you Jesus for your promises. You are so faithful even in the midst of my storm, I see the works of your hands.
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This is why I became a PICU nurse
If you have been following me for a while now, you know I am a PICU nurse. For those of you just stumbling across my blog for the first time, now you know! Most people aren’t familiar with PICU.. it is the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I take care of critically ill children. I often…
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The Solo Traveler
Loss isn’t something we flaunt. We carry it privately, as though broken glass shattered and left held together by glue. We all grieve differently. Loss changes things, specifically our future, our hopes, our dreams. It changes the future we thought we were going to have. Loss isn’t always death. And sometimes harder for others to…
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The year of the Orchid
Orchids represent love, beauty, and strength. Well on my birthday this past year, March 2019, my sister gifted me with an orchid. I haven’t kept much of anything alive this past year. For example I kept pouring “weed and feed” all over my front and back yard and couldn’t understand why the grass was growing…
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Can you do a back flip?
Do you know how much practice and effort it takes to do a back flip? If you have seen someone that do a back flip, chances are you noticed muscles on their body that you can’t even name. Back flips are sexy, they’re also a work of art, but for the purposes of this there…
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If you’re going to wear red, wear it boldly
Travel fills an yearning for the stories we hear and read about, creating lasting photographs within our memories. With Cessna, doors become runways leading me to places I never imagined. I find myself in Madrid. So with Cessna inside me, I roamed the streets of this beautiful city in search of answers to questions I…
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Crazy like Noah
Let your faith be bigger than your fears That seems so obvious and for Noah, I am sure he was afraid that he looked like a fool in front “society” and he was, he was absolutely crazy to build such an enormous boat. But doing so saved his family. Sometimes we can be so engulfed…
Her Name Means Wild 