June 2011
May 2011
All the Single Ladies
Ladies, don’t wait for a knight on a white horse to come rescue you. Christ has already done that. No, find a man to make sure you stay on the horse you’re on. A man cannot give you your worth. He can only show it to you. A man cannot break you because you are not in his hands. You are in the safe and secure hands of God. It’s a man’s job to make sure you stay there.
This is sweet. And it speaks a broader truth, of not only girls looking to men for worth, but to men looking for women, or anyone of either gender looking to friends or a job or status or money or praise or affirmation or performance.
Me, I'm used to being tired and bloody,
but you believe that I could be somebody.
Everyone's watching, quick to start talking, I'm losing my innocence.
How we lost home, I’ll never know.
no, none of it's true.
So hello, good friend, I wanna be next to you
For my head, for my heart, for what’s true
Because you tore down the walls that the world has put inside my head
And I just get sick of the things that we think we think we know
So take me and save me and change me and then make me
And embrace me and then brave my heart for you
No, no, ‘cause I can’t go on without you
And it’s time for something new oh oh
And as they strolled along
My heart broke out in song
From all the things and the thoughts and assumptions that I had wrong
To Write Love on Her Arms: Behind The Scenes: On Memorial Day: An Invitation. →
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In both 2009 and 2010, more soldiers died by suicide than were killed in combat. On this Memorial Day, as we pause to remember the men and women killed in combat, we choose also to remember the soldiers lost to suicide.
And in an effort to do more than just remember, we want to invite you to use your voice to urge President Obama to reverse the White House policy on military condolence letters. In short, we believe that the current policy of not sending condolence letters to families of service members who lost their lives to suicide is insensitive and we believe it needs to change.
The grieving families of soldiers who die by suicide deserve to be met with kindness and compassion. For these people, the reality is that someone they love went to war and they did not return. Compassion shouldn’t hinge on the circumstances of the death, whether they died by enemy fire or died trying to escape the memory of what they saw and felt and lost at war. Love should not be withheld based on where a bullet comes from. Those soldiers that died by suicide, they were sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends. They were people living stories and their stories ended tragically too soon.
For more information and to get involved, PLEASE CLICK HERE. We’re asking you to write and call the White House, to make the message clear that we believe the family of any solider killed deserves the highest level of kindness and comfort.
To the many remembering loved ones lost today, we stand with you. We ache for your loss and for your grief. We celebrate your memories. To the many alive but still at war, be that far away or here at home, we stand with you as well.
If you are struggling, please know that you are not alone. Please talk to someone. And please know that it’s okay to talk to someone. It’s okay to say “I’m not okay.” It’s okay to say “I need help.” People, all people, need and deserve other people.
Talk to a friend. Consider talking to a counselor. Please don’t walk this road alone.
You matter very much.
