I don’t understand me sometimes. I’ll be doing so well, and then, crash! Something in me falls down into a pit, and as much as I try, I just can’t seem to pull myself up out of it. Is this depression? I don’t think I feel depressed. Just… some kind of loss of self. Ever […]
Warrior Princess
Warrior Princess A Poem, by Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ Lord what are you doing with me tonight? What is Your wish for my life? To what places will You take my mind? Look, where my heart, to find? ~ I have no other conclusion, Than to look past all this life’s dilution, To see the […]
Grateful to be Tender
In some ways I always looked at myself with pity. I wasn’t tough as a child, I wasn’t strong emotionally, at least I wasn’t in the way I measured toughness. I was tender. I cried easily. My feelings were easily hurt. Very much in my own head, making friends was hard for me. I tended […]
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.
There are moments in life where every single little insecurity about yourself will come up and bite you. Yesterday was one for me. My Birthday is on Sunday, and this year I wanted to just invite a few people out to lunch, the people I consider to be the closest to me. My family, my […]
Who Am I?
Who Am I? A Poem, By Joy Aletheia Stevens ~ Who am I? Do you know? Can anyone see? I’m wife, I’m mother, but who is me? Do I know anymore? What’s inside of me? Where are the parts of me that used to be? ~ Where’s the poet and dreamer? Who found words in […]
Where Respect is Due
I’m reading a news story, and I’m horrified. A mother admitting to killing and hiding six of her own new-born babies over the course of a decade. How could this happen? I was supposed to write about respect today. It’s in my schedule. It would probably already be written if it wasn’t for the unpredictability […]
Set Us Free.
I wonder how many reading this post are struggling with sin in their life. It’s overwhelming isn’t it? Sometime it seems to get to the point that we are just no longer in control, our sin is. I don’t want to minimize this struggle, and I recognize that with some things, some serious addictions, we […]
God’s Child
A while ago my pastor compared God’s love and obsession over us to that of an expectant parent. The thought caught my mind and imagination. Think about it! Even before time began, He lovingly created a place for us to exist. He planted a garden with good food to eat, and made a world, vast […]
Take Me to the Dawn of Creation
Take Me to the Dawn of Creation A Poem By Joy Aletheia Stevens Dedicated to My Husband ~ Take me to the dawn of creation So I can see your birth The moment the thought of the nations Came into the earth ~ I want to see The thought that was pure in God’s mind […]
Where Do I Belong?
I was in a rather odd emotional space when I jotted down this idea for a blog post a while ago. I was feeling rather lonely and isolated and friendless. Not unusual for young moms I’ve found. But these emotions were just a little to overwhelming. Most people know that feeling when emotions, for no discernible […]