“Oh, what a terrible honor it's been to learn that my blessings are things you call sins.” - Semler ~ Dear God, I know you handcrafted me in Your image, 
yet for the longest spin around this merry-go-round 
I assumed this one piece was the exception
 to the glorious rule of being Yours and only Yours. So, I hid it and ran from it and pretended it
 out of existence as if destroying my beating heart
 would provide the only path to true, agape love. Many of them would tell me to

Life often forces us where we never intended. But if we're lucky, even in the most harrowing of circumstances, we find safety in the end.

"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." There exists a dichotomy that transcends most of my

The past year felt a bit like the calm before the storm. Like a brief period of rest where I actually had time for myself before going...