“I wanted to live more than I wanted to die. I didn’t know how to live. I didn’t know how I would be able to live life on life’s terms. But I know God carried me to the end of that journey so I could start a new one. In those few days, God brought me to the point of willingness again, to start down a path with an unknown destination.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that place of clarity, a vision of what I could have, what I could do, who I could be has emerged if I allow my heart to become a place of compassion, acceptance and forgiveness.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
“I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.”
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
― Making a Pearl from the Grit of Life
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