I don’t usually preface poetry with anything, but I felt like a little explanation was needed. It’s supposed to be easy to be thankful, isn’t it? Most years, I approach this time of year with nothing but a grateful heart. There is so much I should be thankful for, even this year. But, I’m having…
Author: Emily
When God is Silent
There was a realization The faith that defined you, molded youHad shifted, first imperceptibly then like a chasm opening The things you thought you knew were lost amongst the thistlesThe truths you held fast to were entangled in the briars The skeptics call it deconstruction, a systematic destructionOf the status quo and the stable base…
Momentary
There is a space between the life you live and the life you dream will be where you are forced to slow down and wait, reflect, and learn. It is the place where you find yourself simultaneously hoping, fearing, and trusting both yourself and everyone around you. It is that space where you have to learn to trust yourself. And you have to learn to trust others, trust the journey you are on, even when the hills, valleys, and switchbacks make you feel exhausted and overwhelmed. You’re in that momentary space for a reason.
Wildflowers
I’ve been thinking about wildflowers a lot lately. As I’ve been going on long walks around Bloomington, I’ve found more and more places where wildflowers are blooming. They change a little throughout the seasons, but they are still there. And, as I walk, I find them in the ugliest of places – forgotten corners of…
The Letter Exchange
There was a long, persistent lonely feelingIt wasn’t something she truly understoodBut it wasn’t exactly foreign, eitherIt was the culmination of a million momentsWhere it didn’t matter if she was around peopleOr if she knew she had something to anticipateShe still felt truly lonely. There was a soft, gentle, lovely feelingGrowing with each passing dayA…
Bottled Up
She wasn’t the kind of person who broke easilyShe wasn’t the kind of person who showed her heartShe’d been too open and had learned to wall off the world She kept herself safe by keeping herself just outsideOutside the people who could hurt herand outside the risks that might grow her – or destroy her…
Book Review: Wrapped with a Beau
Thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours for this review copy! In its heyday, Piney Peaks and its beloved Christmas House were made famous by Sleighbells, a romantic holiday movie. 50 years later, the small town is ready for a new love story. As a successful film liaison, Elisha Rowe has her heart set on one…
Broken & Whole
a study in contradictions Every piece shattered when she fellThe floor covered in bits of dreamsHopes and wonders and should have beensNo longer able to be seen for what they were Dust choked the light that tried to stream inCovered the surfaces that once held happy memoriesHiding the cracks in surfaces polished to a fake…
Book Review: Phoebe’s Diary
Thanks to TBR & Beyond Tours for the Review Copy. Get the Whole Tour Here! Drawn from real life, here is a bracingly honest illustrated diary of a teenage girl that captures the explosive turmoil and joy of adolescence. Meet Phoebe. She’s cool and insecure, talented and vulnerable, sexy and awkward, driven and confused, ecstatic…