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The Names They Gave Us
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- Godina izdavanja
- 2017
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- marti leonje citiraoпре 3 године
And under the dreaming tree, I see a girl who can be okay and not okay all at once. So, I guess I’m just grateful to be here for all of it, for the mess and the ache and the unknowing.
After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It is not the type of love that ends. - marti leonje citiraoпре 3 годинеIf I’m going to believe, it has to be in a God who would forgive my father for this word.
I have to believe in a God who knows how much my father loves my mother.
I have to believe in a God who would sit beside my father in that car, place His hand on my father’s back.
And maybe it took me until now—until this horrible moment—to realize, but I do.
I believe in nature, in science, in jazz, in dancing.
And I believe in people. In their resilience, in their goodness.
This is my credo; this is my hymn. Maybe it’s not enough for heaven, and maybe I’m even wrong. But if I can walk through the fire and, with blistered skin, still have faith in better days? I have to believe that’s good enough. - marti leonje citiraoпре 3 годинеBecause I’m me, and I’m trying, and I have a family of friends who wrap around me like clouds. Because there are surely other names for grace, and mine are Mom, Dad. Rachel. Henry. Anna. Keely. Mohan. Rhea. Bryan. Lukas. Our congregation and my swim team and, somewhere, a half sister who might someday become a whole one.
In them, my sense of holiness only grows
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