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Your Time is Now: Living a Life of Endless Possibilities
I sat at my wooden, oak desk in my bedroom like I normally do every Sunday ready to face the Sunday Scaries with confidence. I had a long list of things that needed to be accomplished before Monday, and my desk was usually the place I would wrestle away the anxieties that came with the…
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Why I Write? – Finding the Why Behind your Passions
Why I Write? -Finding the Why Behind Your Passions There are many reasons why a person writes or may want to call themselves a writer. Some enjoy the soft grip of a pen as they scribble their thoughts and ideas across a sheet of paper. Others use writing as a therapy, or an outlet…
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How to Let Go When You Desperately Want to Hold On
For the Person Who Needs to Let Go and Trust in God’s Plan for Their Lives I grasped the phone tightly as I felt its edges dig deep into the palm of my hand. The plastic cover that protected my phone quivered with fear as my fingers strangled the small, square electronic object. I…
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Ready or Not the Real World is Calling: A College Graduate’s Guide to Moving on.
I quickly cut my steering wheel to the right and smoothly pulled up the semi steep, black driveway that led to my little college house. My foot pressed down tightly on the brake pedal as I pushed the gear into park; an action I have done over and over since living here. I…
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Unfinished: When You Feel like You are Not Good Enough.
I gazed inquisitively at the waves as they crashed one after another on the solid, sandy shore. In front of the place where I was sitting, two young girls were laughing, screaming and jumping in the water. Their playful screams echoed through the roar of the ocean as each wave came crashing at their…
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Looking Back, While Moving Forward
Closing Out Chapter 2017 With only a few unwritten pages left in the chapter twenty-seventeen, it is only right to finalize the ending with some closing remarks. Like any natural story, chapter endings end where the chapter really began -reflecting back on the previous chapter. You see, chapter endings are really just strange…
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A Letter to the Individuals who are Still Playing the Game
A Championship that Taught me Life’s Greatest Lessons Sitting on a slightly, raised, grassy hill only a few feet away from the bright, green turf field, I stared intently at the small, orange ball as it traveled from one side of the field, to the the other. From the place where I was sitting, I…
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Breakthrough the Pain
Embrace the Rain “When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person that walked in that’s what the storm is all about” – HARUKI Murakami I sit at my dining room table hunched over with tired eyes and a warm blanket draped around my shoulders. If you know me, you…
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How to Confront the Fear of Change
I sat perplexed, gazing at the sea of clothing that surrounded me. Piles of jeans, shirts, shorts, sweatshirts, and hangers engulfed every square inch of my bedroom floor except the tiny circular area where I was sitting. Not to mention the mountain of shoes piled high on my bed. Starring hopelessly at the disaster,…
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To the Individual who Struggles with Finding Beauty within Themselves
Finding Beauty in a Pile of Sea Shells I gently placed one foot down on the rocky, shell filled beach feeling the crunch of the pile of sea shells crack beneath the weight of my body. I was careful to balance myself at just the right angle so the sharp edges of the broken sea…