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“Sometimes you just need someone to tell you you’re not as terrible as you think you are.”

— Unknown

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West

Jason Schneiderman, from "Staircase", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Joy Sullivan, “Solo“, Instructions for Traveling West

My moments lately ✨

It’s foolish to have a short fuse and be easily provoked to anger, especially when God offers a better way—perhaps through “the rebuke of a wise person”. Pursuing wisdom, we can “let the peace of Christ rule in [our] hearts”. We can live in wisdom and forgiveness as He helps us.

Our Daily Bread

Ashley M. Jones, "Lullaby For The Grieving", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.

Mark 14:36

i love this style of christian art, it's so pretty and delightful. by @.paigepayne_creations on instagram!

Carl Phillips, “We Love in the Only Ways We Can”, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Mount Rainier National Park by Peter Thomas

Hanif Abdurraqib, from "There Are More Ways to Show Devotion", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Roni Horn, Images from “Some Thames” series, 2000

Have faith

“It was a privilege to love you, and it was a privilege to let you go. Both helped shape me into the person I have become.”

— Beau Taplin

Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “See”

[Text ID: “How rare to see someone and feel. / How rare to see someone and know / you are not alone, / for your eyes are theirs, / your pain, too. / How rare to truly see someone.”]

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jennifer willoughby, the sun is still a part of me

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, "Extracting the Stone of Madness", Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972