Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but the heart to conquer it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. None of us is perfect. In marriage we do not always do the best or right thing... We cannot erase the past. We can only confess it and agree that it was wrong. We can ask for forgiveness and try to act differently in the future. Having confessed my failure and asked ( Read more... )

I wake up early, sometimes at 5:30 to run ( Read more... )

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and just like that,
my heart is smiling and my nightmares are gone.

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can two broken people together create one whole person?

two nights at home.
it's so wonderful to be home. even if it's only 2 nights.

the difference between us is palpable after him telling me he's willing to do the work.

"you've been putting your trust in Christian when you should be putting your trust in God, Banana."

Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:5

i don't even think he realized this is where esperanza came from.

why do the people that love me the most live the furthest away?

time differences suck.

they are both sleeping during the hardest part of my day... when i'm in bed thinking about my life being in pieces.

i just want to be ok.

“Perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help,
not for having no one for whom to care.
Emptiness, but no great burden.”

“It’s difficult to explain. I think it’s as though everyone has a small place inside themselves, maybe, a private bit that they keep to themselves. It’s like a little fortress, where the most private part of ( Read more... )