I’ve discovered that illness comes with inner resources and a strength that none of us knows we have until life forces us to find them. It has cured me of inertia and it has compelled me to live a healthy, disciplined life. It has thrown me
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“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“The Holy Spirit showed me that unless I dealt with the hurts I still carried from the past, I would not be able to totally enter into and enjoy the future He has for me.”
― Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
― Live Fearless: A Call to Power, Passion, and Purpose
“Being kind makes you feel happy”
― Life Just Got Real
― Life Just Got Real
“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“DON’T LET THE LIONS STOP YOU FROM LIVING. FACE THEM WITH FAITH.”
― Live: remain alive, be alive at a specified time, have an exciting or fulfilling life
― Live: remain alive, be alive at a specified time, have an exciting or fulfilling life
Sierra’s 2025 Year in Books
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