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Chapter 28: Paradoxes
It’s all so tragic, how two people can be growing and learning individually, and at the same time falling apart from each other.
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Chapter 27: Cracked Open
My heart cracked open to a flood of emotions from past trauma that I hadn’t ever processed before.
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Chapter 26: More About Spiritual Uncertainty
Let us therefore not look for certainty and stability. Our reason is always deceived by fickle shadows…” - Blaise Pascal, Pensées, pp. 19-20.
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An Angel on Earth, An Angel in Heaven
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For Those of You Who Don't Know Me
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Wave of Grief
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Roles, Worry & Fear
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Chapter 16: The Sea Our Path
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Chapter 25: I Know
I'm fine. I'm sorry. I know. I don't know.
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Wait, You Can Do That?
I continued studying, wondering, questioning and occasionally freaking out over my spiritual shake up.
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Chapter 23: Processing
I was feeling a lot of emotions coming to the surface about Dad’s death, Covid, and other things. I needed to work these feelings out.
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Chapter 22: Trying to Be Like Me
I felt a voice that said, "that’s what I want for you, too. I don’t want you to be like Jesus. Be Rachel."
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Chapter 21: The Harder I Work, the More I Live
Fires, protests, murder hornets. 2020 might as well add kidney stones and my dad dying.
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Chapter 20: Three Essays
I started writing down my spiritual insights because they were just building up inside of me.
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Chapter 19: Covid, Protests, Fires and More
Protests spread across the country and the world. It seemed like I was witnessing something historic.
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