Archive - Taking Off the Armor

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.

Apr 29 •

March 2025

Chapter 27: Cracked Open

My heart cracked open to a flood of emotions from past trauma that I hadn’t ever processed before.

Mar 2 •

February 2025

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.

Feb 24 •

January 2025

Chapter 25: I Know

I'm fine. I'm sorry. I know. I don't know.

Jan 21 •

October 2024

Wait, You Can Do That?

I continued studying, wondering, questioning and occasionally freaking out over my spiritual shake up.

Oct 1, 2024 •

August 2024

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.

Aug 12, 2024 •

July 2024

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."

Jul 22, 2024 •

June 2024

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.

Jun 27, 2024 •

May 2024

April 2024

Chapter 18: Oh 2020

Oh 2020, what do I even say about you? The year started with such hope, looking to the future with “20/20 clarity.

Apr 24, 2024 •

March 2024

Chapter 17: The Mystery of Healing

My mind and heart have been led to learning about healing. And also, I realized for the first time in the past two years, that I just might be…

Mar 12, 2024 •

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