I awoke from my bed, but the world felt so dark. As I set my feet on the floor, I felt as though I had been given a cloak of heaviness around my shoulders. ————— “This is the day.” The Father said with a lump in His throat. ————— As I did my morning...
After a long, arduous trek that left her battered, bruised, and nearly crushed, she arrived at a spacious place. She basked in the sunshine and smelled the wildflowers. She breathed in the mountain air and twirled as she danced in the beauty around her. She frolicked...
She stumbled to the gate, her soul broken and tattered. Her hands grasped for the gate as her knees collapsed, smacking the floor. She couldn’t speak. Her mouth was dry, her strength had faded, and her words had run out. Her feeble self, in contrast to majesty, made...
I spent the entire afternoon getting ready, but I had been preparing for months. I have so many expectations, and my heart is nearly swelling out of my chest. I stepped into the car, waiting for the driver to move, yet something was wrong. Finally, the driver...
Beyond the cracked sidewalk, and the telephone pole with layers of flyers in a rainbow of colors, and the patch of dry brown grass there stood a ten-foot-high concrete block wall, caked with dozens of coats of paint. There was a small shrine at the foot of it, with...
I was one of twelve chosen, I still don’t know why I was picked. Some were related and others complete strangers. Some had a radical turn around and some just quietly left to follow. But we were a force to be reckoned with. I have never felt so passionately about...
