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Hello, Again

Hello, again, To all the things– writing, the internet, and you, whoever you are reading this. After a long day of life today we got home around 9:15pm and my husband went upstairs to workout in our home gym (which I had to mention because it is a room in our home we are quite…

Spring Cleaning

Spring cleaning. Cleaning out relationships Clutter Crap Cleaning out the parts of my heart that ought never turn back Cleaning out the crevices & corners of my brain Cleaning out the calories that make me go insane Cleaning out the habits that don’t serve me any longer Cleaning out the wasted time and instead getting…

How Can I Miss Heaven?

How can I miss heaven even though I’ve never been? It’s so clear and close to me when I close my eyes and breath in. The water moves in gentle tsunamis While the trees literally dance. The rocks will tell you stories. There’s no need for a second or third chance. People there aren’t crying…

Will We Love Me?

Will you still love me with my surgery scars? Knowing I’ve been torn open and pulled apart? Will you still love me when the roof caves in? Once you find out where I dream of going and, worse, where I’ve been? Will you still love me when I’m not nice? When I have bad…

We Built a Shelter: My Story

The following is an introduction to a short story I wrote about processing the last few years of my life to help make sense of where I am now. If you’d like to skip straight to the story, start below the horizontal line. Enjoy! I tried my best to be as realistic as possible about…

Vulnerability

By: Loving Life as Emma March 9, 2017March 11, 2017

Prose & Poetrybox, enough, freedom, image, images, Life, lovinglifeasemma, poems, poetry, self worth, shame, you are enough2 Comments

You carry your image with you as a weight which wearies your soul, Like an anvil barely balancing between two two by fours, A cinder block pressed against your broken chest. & the worst part is that you’ve carried it for 20 years without realization. You want to part with it because you know that…

Pain

By: Loving Life as Emma September 9, 2016September 9, 2016

Prose & PoetryGod, hurt, Life, lovinglifeasemma, negative emotions, pain, poetry, sad emotions, storm1 Comment

Pain pain go away, Come again some other day A day when I have strength to fight. A day when it won’t take all my might. Pain Pain, don’t come at all. If I had my way, I would never fall. Not today, not tomorrow, not any day soon. and I would be able to…

Focus

By: Loving Life as Emma July 9, 2016September 14, 2019

Life & Lifestyle, Prose & Poetryfocus, Life, Live, live life, lovinglifeasemma, soldier on, thoughtsLeave a Comment

Everywhere I go lately, I’ve been followed by this one word– “Focus.”I’m not entirely sure why or what it means, but I’m excited to find out. For the past 5 years or so, God has been intentional about giving me a word or two every October which guides the next year of my life. This…

A Letter to My Pain Part 1

By: Loving Life as Emma June 13, 2016September 14, 2019

Prose & PoetryFaith, Hope, Life, lovinglifeasemma, negative emotions, people, sad emotions, thoughts, value1 Comment

This letter isn’t to any one person, nor is it about any one thing. You see, transitioning from the school year to summer has been a uniquely difficult challenge for many different reasons and after watching Alexa Losey’s video “A Letter to All the Boys I’ve Loved,” I realized I needed to write some letters. In…

I am afraid of you

By: Loving Life as Emma May 20, 2016May 20, 2016

Prose & Poetryafraid, God, lovinglifeasemma, man, men, people, poems, poetry, sad emotions, scaredLeave a Comment

I am afraid of you because you don’t have to do much to have power over me. A power that is strong A power like no other I didn’t have to know you long Your opinion mattered more than my own mother. I am afraid of you for many different reasons. Will you leave…

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