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When the Church Says You’re Too Much — and the Basement Says Welcome Home

There is a specific kind of heartbreak reserved for people who were told their soul was “too much.”

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A Prayer for the Ones Who Don’t Pray Anymore

The universe isn’t grading you on posture.
There’s no rubric.
No failing grade for leaving the sanctuary to save your sanity.

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There’s a quiet kind of holiness in falling apart.

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I didn’t build this basement because I’m holy. I built it because I’m ruined.