// Personal Journal
Personal Journal
The Journal Entry Posts will share some of my various musings on topics that I have shared in a weekly newsletter that I write to Friends and Family in order to stay in touch. The content can be far ranging at times but normally centers on a core value or observation. I have always found it helpful to write on topics when trying to understand myself what my true thoughts are. No need to read these if you are primarily focused on the novels or the series, although you will see many of the themes that you will find in the novels captured here. View them as 'life lessons' but as with all such lessons, you will only truly understand them if you have experienced them yourself.
Grace
On the quiet power of grace and why the most difficult acts of kindness are the ones that matter most.
Forgiveness
Wrestling with what it truly means to forgive, and the cost of holding onto what we think we are owed.
Lights On
It takes effort to keep the ones you care about most in your life. Don't let the lights turn off.
Social Masking
On the masks we wear in public, the energy it costs to maintain them, and the liberation of taking them off.
Vulnerability
Why vulnerability is not weakness but the hardest kind of strength, and why we keep choosing armor instead.