The Grace Journal

Life can be a desert sometimes. Others don't treat you the way you feel you should be treated. One situation after another doesn't go the way you had hoped. Your heart in constantly hurting and you wonder if it will ever be whole again.  You are trudging through an emotional and spiritual...

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How are you feeling today?No...I don't mean physically...like are you still stuffed from all those yummy Thanksgiving foods? :)I mean...how are you FEELING EMOTIONALLY? It's a tough question for some. As Christian (and even if you're not) some of us are programmed from childhood to see emotions through black and white lenses...good emotions...

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Broken dreams hurt. Anyone who says otherwise has either never dreamed big and failed or is a big fat liar. (Lol)If you care about something enough to dream of it and pursue it it means you have put your very HEART on the line for the sake of this thing you are...

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I am a thief. I regularly take from others what doesn't belong to me. I stuff it in my backpack and collect these things that belong to others to the point where I am weighed down with it. With my thefts come guilt, condemnation, exhaustion and fear. What is this thing that turns me into...

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I'm a backpacker. Not a granola eating, Birkenstock wearing, outdoor camping and enjoying it kinda backpacker. I'm an emotional backpacker. Even before my counselor used that term, I knew the concept well. When problems and feelings would arise, rather than deal with them, I would stuff them down inside...into my emotional backpack. In the beginning...it...

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Hello Friends and welcome to The Grace Journal. This is my place to just be me and I hope you will find it a place of openness and honesty...of passion and praise...of truth and hope. It was never my intention to set out to do a blog like this. I have my artistic...

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