The Journal

A cozy bedroom scene with a bed in the foreground, a wooden nightstand with stacks of books, a potted plant, and a wall with sunlight casting shadows.

On a line, we add words. Carved from the lightest boxes and the deepest rivers. They flow from my essence, stretching across the lines that once held my silence, we write. we turn. we return. Carving out words from the lightest boxes and the deepest rivers—they flow from my essence. Line after line until the lines become art, and the art becomes memory, and the memory becomes message.

I stand at a crossroad. But really—there’s only one way. I lean not on my own understanding, like a sheep who needs a shepherd. I’m not the captain of this boat. I die daily to the self society sculpted—picked, pruned, burned, blamed, and painted into fear. I will move not on impulse, but by instruction. Like a piece in His hand on a board He already sees the end of. Not checkers. Not chess. Not guesswork. But something positioned—-not for the win, but for His will.

Nothing But Poetry

For the ones still becoming. Still Emerging.


Interior of a building showing a set of beige stairs with a beige wall and a corner of a empty beige shelf.

This Month’s Short Story

PERFECTLY

FOREVER

An animated woman with blonde hair looking into a car's rearview mirror, which reflects her face with a serious expression on a rainy day, with raindrops on the window and city buildings in the background.

This morning, I was someone’s wife. By nightfall, I was sitting in a bar with mascara on my cheeks, a ring in my pocket, and a storm unraveling in my chest. And somewhere in the middle of all that pain… God whispered, “Now, begin.

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Week 17: Released, Rested, and Renewed
Life Lately LaTrisha Wills Life Lately LaTrisha Wills

Week 17: Released, Rested, and Renewed

This week was the opposite of heavy. I let go — again. This time, it came in the form of leaving my job. But before the resignation came the reflection, the movie that stirred my spirit, the unexpected chaos, and the deep knowing that it was time to walk away.

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