Love
Turn It for Good: Difficulties Will Turn into Victories
After a roller coaster of a day where I experienced the bliss that overcomes me when I am lost in the wonderment of my son and the sorrow that arrives with goodbyes, I decided to take a long drive this…
Lessons from Strangers: Resiliency and the Redemptive Power of Love
I just met two amazing couples who exuded profound joy while canvassing for signatures. They both shared the same “secret” about successful marriages—humility and teamwork. The wife from the first couple told me that she had to learn overtime not…
Forgiveness is for Us: I Did Not Remain Broken Because I Chose to Let Go
This morning, while honoring Sabbath, I decided to listen to healing music that is rooted in love and forgiveness. After listening to a few music videos, I eventually landed upon a song by Zeritu Kebede titled “ Eza Alkerehum” (see…
A Note to Fellow Empaths: Being Wronged by People You Help is God’s Way of Teaching You to Finally Love Yourself
It’s a story I am intimately familiar with because I have witnessed it in countless people I have met throughout my life and lived this reality myself. There are some who make it their purpose to give everything to others—to…
The Pursuit of Happiness Goes Through the Road of Sadness
I thought my rendezvous with soul-sucking tribulation ended five years ago, after enduring more than two years of homelessness, it seemed that all the scars I harbored throughout my life finally had a meaning when I found love in the…
Follow Your Arrow: The Profundity of Kacey Musgraves and the Redemption Songs She Sings
Life is never straight but a series of twists and turns where one day we are standing on solid ground only for the floor to crack beneath us. Most of the time, these unexpected developments are painful as hell, the…
What Was Not Done for Us…
Even when we forget, we always remember. The painful memories we stuffed deep inside and the traumas we blurred away with the awful benevolence of time live on even as we pretend we are alright only to be triggered by…
This Wisdom that Arrived Upon My Heart: Coping is Prison, Feeling is Freedom
You never know what freedom feels like until you escape the walls that have kept you in bondage for so long. I write this not from a place of piety as if I have life figured out but as a…
Pains of My Parents: My Journey to Break the Stronghold of Generational Traumas
It hit me like a ton of bricks while driving Uber a couple of days ago, pains that I locked away and sorrows I barricaded in the deepest recesses of my mind came rushing out like the Ghion River during…
I’mPerfect: It is Time to Heal Thyself
I remember it like it was yesterday, I had just gotten 4.5 stars out of 5 on my fourth grade English assignment and as soon as I saw glowing remarks from my teacher, the first person I wanted to show…
