Oleander RoseTime for your morning check-inOne deep breath, lungs expanding heart still beating, a little noisily pounding like a drum in my ears, moving blood intoJul 9Jul 9
Oleander RoseI don’t want to be anyone’s ghostJake brushed the mud from the last place he’d been off the sides of his boots and swung his backpack over his shoulder again. He trudged…Jun 23Jun 23
Oleander RoseExcessive worry is my second skinmy therapist once told me “you have a generalized anxiety disorderJun 11Jun 11
Oleander RoseMove through it, they say.the only thing I embody is being human. freckled and imperfect inconsistent and unfaithful to my own heart.Jun 8Jun 8
Oleander RoseI said, I forgive you.There’s this thing called forgiveness. It’s written about in every religious text, I think. God calls upon us from the Bible to forgive…Jun 5Jun 5
Oleander RoseThis time will be different, a short storyShe sighed, “I guess it’s my last chance to make something work…I feel like I can give it one more chance and then I need to let it go.”May 29May 29
Oleander RoseDon’t drink tea, you’ll be condemned: Lessons on choosing to believe in God after leaving the…“It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more…May 25May 25
Oleander Rose“Suddenly our eyes are words”I think there comes a time in everyone’s life where you have to step back and take a good look at where you are, who you are, and what you…May 20May 20
Oleander RoseHow to believe in God when everything sucksLet me start this off by saying — some days I wholeheartedly believe in God. Some days I don’t. I think that’s pretty normal for both the…May 14May 14
