Anonymous
- The gift of Marriage
Marriage is not a reward for good people. It is not something that you can achieve, it is not something that you can fail to achieve. Marriage is not something you advance to once you have learned to love God how you should.
Anonymous
- You won't get it - Pt. 4
This is not a fight that I will lose. Matter of fact, it's a hill I'm willing to die on. Though I feel like relationships are slipping through my fingers, I'm not letting go. I won't let the way people perceive me be the truth about my life. They don't get to choose that and neither do I. So I will continue working on being tender. Being gentle. Being kind. Loving without conditions, without reserves. Letting people see my heart, even if they intend to abuse it.
Anonymous
- You won't get it - Pt. 3
And I don't mean something small. I mean, they are calling me terrible things, accusing me of things that aren't true, playing around with my feelings and loyalty, and even challenging my character. It's so hard. It breaks my heart. I feel like the one thing I'm pretty good at, I'm failing at. But here's the thing, I know that my feelings are not the truth and that they are not reliable. I know whatever is thrown at me, God has my back. And though it's very hard, I won't give up.
Anonymous
- You won't get it - Pt.2
So that I didn't feel like I drew the short straw. Like I was cheated. Like it was too good to be true. But, you don't get to take that away from me. I honestly feel like the devil is testing my relationships. Maybe he knows that I hold them, dear, to my heart and he's testing that. Maybe he understands how I thrive off of relationships. He's making me question something that's so close to my heart. Just like he did with Eve. Every new person that I begin to get close to, something happens.
Anonymous
- You won't get it - Pt.1
A few years ago I read a book called "Wait It Out." I don't remember many things from the book but one thing I do is a point Jamie Grace makes. She says, "Promise not to call your future husband, or boys in general, names." All weekend I have been fighting against calling you names. There are hundreds of names flowing through my head I want to call you. Names I've wanted to call you in front of others or all by myself. Names I know would hurt you. Honestly, I'd say them so they would hurt you.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 4
I wish so badly to be wanted. More than I can even explain, I want to be desired. Everything in me is telling me I need not talk to you as much and I'm starting to listen. I'm beginning to realize my gut is pretty trustworthy. So to the sweet boy who made me feel like I was something worth looking for in a crowded room, I hope you find your Juliet. Much love (and a halfway broken heart), A.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 3
I know that I don't matter to you enough for you to care. And I know that I care about you more than you'll probably ever care about me. I know and it hurts a lot. This isn't your fault but it rubs salt in an already sore wound. It knocks me down and makes me remember that that isn't for me. At least not right now. The love, the affection, the shy glances, the hope. All of it, it's not for me. Not yet.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 2
Hearing you tell me I was pretty was amazing, I won't even lie to you. Knowing that you looked for me at church and knowing you perked up at the mention of my name made me feel more special than I have in years. Knowing that I crossed your mind at all gave me butterflies and I couldn't keep that stupid smile off my face when you told me I was beautiful. But as per usual, all I am to you is a pretty face. A pretty girl to look at and that's about it. I know that's what you're thinking.
Anonymous
- I know - Pt. 1
I know what I am to you. I know that I'm just a boost to your ego. I know that you use me as another pretty face. I know that I give you the attention that you want. I know. But I also know you're talking to other girls. I know that I am not enough for you. I probably am reserved and my standards are too high. I wait for you to talk to me and I watch for your name to pop up on my phone. I know that you don't really care about me.
Anonymous
- I wanted it so badly
It hurt, but I'm not dumb. Your response solidified everything I had been thinking all week and I hated it. I thought my lifelong prayer was beginning to be answered. I was giving you a second chance. But all you wanted to do was play around. I wanted you to care about me. I wanted you to love me on purpose. I wanted you to see how flawed I was and choose to love me anyway. I wanted you to be the person who made me smile. I wanted it so badly. I just wanted you to want me.
Anonymous
- Dice
Yes, I am incredibly afraid of falling in love with you. Okay? You make me feel like I am on top of the world and that is a very, very long way to fall.
Erin Hanson
- Beautiful Pt.2 -
Its very definition is "pleasing to the sense or mind." But she's let them change the way she thinks her beauty is defined. It breaks your heart to know her mirror is how she estimates her worth. And not the lives she's made much better by simply being on this Earth.
Zandashe L'Orelia Brown
- Resilience
I dream of never again being called resilient in my life. I am exhausted by strength. I want to be supported. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin. Not patted on the back for how well I take a hit. Or how many hits I take.
Erin Hanson
- Beautiful - Pt.1
You tell her she's beautiful, she laughs and asks you how. When there's a crack on her front tooth and a crease between her brow. Where is all the beauty in her slightly-too-big-nose. In the freckles on her cheeks and how her hair takes years to grow. And you wonder where she learnt that beauty lies upon your skin. So that she thinks it doesn't everything she holds within. Its very definition is "pleasing to the sense or mind" But she's let them change the way she thinks her beauty is defined.
Erin Hanson
- Pain
The thing about pain is it won't last forever. And it kills you right now, but with time it gets better. The thing about scars is they all start to fade until nothing is left of the cuts that were made. The thing about today is that there's always tomorrow, and if you can't find your smile, I have one you can borrow. The thing about love is you can't feel its touch until you let someone know that this world is too much.
Anonymous
- Things that Keep me up Pt. 2
You'll walk into the kitchen, brew a cup of black coffee, stare at the pale morning rays of sunlight entering the window frame, and come to the conclusion that for no particular reason at all, you don't love me anymore.
Anonymous
- Things that Keep me up Pt. 1
My biggest fear isn't that you'll lie to me one day or that you'll cheat on me. My biggest fear is that you'll wake up before me one Tuesday morning and instead of leaning in and kissing me on the cheek, you'll look at my sleeping body and start to notice all of my flaws. My crooked nose, my chapped lips, and the stretch marks spread along my stomach. You'll think about my random spouts of jealousy and the fact that I talk too much. You'll remember just how selfish I can be sometimes.
Johnny Cash
- Ragged Old Flag - Pt. 5
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night. We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag. 'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag.
Johnny Cash
- Ragged Old Flag - Pt. 4
In her own good land, she's been abused. She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused. And the government for which she stands Is scandalized throughout the land. And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin, but she's in good shape for the shape she's in. 'Cause she's been through the fire before and I believe she can take a whole lot more.
Alexa Mendoza
- Alexa and Katie Finale
When I got cancer, my nurse told me writing down what I'm grateful for would help me stay positive. Four years later, I'm grateful for more things than I could have ever imagined. But mostly for the person who was by my side for all of it. Some people are lucky enough to have a best friend, I'm even luckier, I got a Katie.
