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Dear God, I made a mistake.  I almost relapsed over the weekend.  You know my excuses: my health struggles, my weariness, my pain.  I wanted so badly to numb myself from all of it.  I didn’t want to feel the mental and emotional fragility or the physical pain.  And I was certain I was too weary to fight another battle—the …

The Poetic Blessings Blog will return on August 7th.   I put this poem together by choosing lines from my favorite poems. Each line is by a different author; the finished poem is by me. Click here for author credits.

Long before I started this blog, I named it Poetic Blessings.  I had no idea when I started blogging how apt that name would be.  My concept of the name is on the home page of my website: I pray you find something beautiful, something poetic—something that blesses you.  I didn’t know when I wrote that that I would be …

I saw some kids playing outside last night.  I watched them gather in the street, then scatter, and from the occasional shrieks and laughter that followed, I figured they must be playing hide-and-seek.  I remember playing that with my brother, sisters, and other neighbor kids on summer nights when we were little.  We played hide-and-seek, red light/green light, and Simon …

Ever since our honeymoon, Monty and I have had a tradition of wishing on stars.  If we’re outside when night falls, we look up and take turns wishing …

Here’s what I discovered that day in the hospital—it works.  The “Sound of Music” philosophy, phrased in such simple words, actually works.  I’m the type of person who, when something goes wrong, tends to dwell on it.  Ruminate on it.  Marinate myself in the melancholy of it.  And I am so tired of doing that.  So that day in the …

This is not the blog post I planned to write tonight.  I wanted to write something happy and celebratory.  Instead, I’m writing this.  God has a way of laying a person or concept on my heart, and until I follow His leading and write about said person or concept, I can’t think about anything else.  I’d like to—because this topic …

I started this blog almost exactly a year ago.  My mom had suggested blogging as a way for me to write regularly and share that writing with other people.  I told her no.  Many times.  I thought about every aspect of it and concluded time after time that blogging wasn’t for me.  I doubted my own capability and was positive …