let’s go through Psalm 23
the Psalm I have on my wall in the room I grew up in
the Psalm I have on my heart Continue reading “happy birthday to me”
Month: August 2019
the best of YED: vol. II, before you start
Aaand we’re back!
“We” being me.
And the Holy Spirit.
Anyway, here’s Volume II! How’d you like the first installment of my YED Series? That volume focused more on relationships, so now that we’ve laid out the backgroundwork, I’ll be talking about getting started. This volume is packed with questions because I’ve learned that it’s really important to be introspective before yelling, “we move!”
(Like, where are we moving to pls? :-/)
These are all points that I saw coming in handy for the pre-beginners. Whether you’re thinking of starting a business, your next semester, a new diet, a new book… whatever it is, just take the advice you need.
Again, I’ll have the points I actually took from the Summit big and bold; everything else will be thoughts from yours truly. Let’s get right into it! Continue reading “the best of YED: vol. II, before you start”
toni morrison
my heart has been saying goodbye
it’s not used to things staying, so it’s been saying goodbye
the things that did stay weren’t good, and they didn’t say bye
so that’s what my heart got used to
it was learning to say hello
to shaking hands
to keeping in touch
to being touched
and then the good said goodbye, again
and my heart cried and it said, “this is familiar”
“this is what I know”
“this is loss”
my heart is so used to saying goodbye, to the weight that moves in when you lose what you love
I can feel it, heavy in my chest
an ice that burns
so I’ve been learning to say goodbye
in a way that feels warm
a way that melts the ice
when you say goodbye to the sun, you say hello to the moon
and the stars
and then you say goodbye to those to say hello to the dawn
she brings her dew, and her birds sing
they cry out
and I wake up and I say, “this is familiar”
“this is what I know”
the fear of goodbye won’t keep me from saying hello
the good will say bye
the bad will say hello
everything will come, and everything will go
I can mourn in the morning
I can dance in the dusk
there’s a time for it all
I guess my heart just got used to saying goodbye
the best of YED: vol. I, relationships
“I have about 10 pages of inspirational chicken scratch, maybe I’ll pick my favorite points and expand on them. an advice column. yeah, that would be live.”
Turns out it was 12 pages.
I don’t know if this counts as an advice column (not sure if I’ve ever read one tbh), but more reflections started as 2 pages and turned into almost 2,000 words. To avoid turning my YED notes into a dissertation, I made a game plan.
If I stick to it, there will be four volumes. Each one is focused on a specific topic, but they’ll flow into each other (think of more reflections as the intro to all of this):
I. relationships
II. before you start
III. guidance
IV. as you’re going
The main points from the Summit are underlined, bolded, and numbered. They’re also bigger. If you just want some takeaway points from YED, there you go. But for everything else, assume I took the messages and ran with them.
I’ve been doing this long enough for y’all to know what to expect, but I hope you’re ready for a lot of intricate analogies and Bible verses!
Vessel in the Valley 