About the post below...

I wrote it because all around me I see people struggling with marriage. Myself included. I needed a way to express what I was feeling and so that was what came out of it.

The same night I bought some songs from Kendall Payne's new album Paper Skin. The song you hear when you come to the blog is her song titled "Fail". The song spoke to me in huge volumes that night, and paired so well with my writing that I wanted to put it here for you to hear.

I hope it speaks to you too.

Julie

I need to breathe
When the day gets a bit too long
And I am left shaken

Love is so fragile
Like a flower
With petals to gently protect
Yet so easily lifted away

Why is it so easy to give up?
Don’t we realize its fragility?
Don’t we value that which is most sacred anymore?

Strength is in the trying
When you have nothing left to try for
When you are empty and broken
But you hold on anyway
Because you have

Faith
In things that you cannot see
In someone bigger than yourself
In a love that is so much more than what we feel

Complicated
Difficult
Its not supposed to be easy
Because easy makes us lazy
And selfish
And the truest form of love is in the surrender
The giving of who we are
And sharing of what we can become

Sacrifice
Is a man who loves a child not his own by blood
But would fight with his life to protect him
Is a woman who feels lost in her own body
But believes that at the end of the day
Her family is all that matters

Mistakes
Are easily made
Frequent and fleeting
But forgiven in the end
Because of the relationship
Because of the promise of unlimited beginnings
Vows spoken easily, yet also easily forgotten
Do not uphold themselves
We must remind ourselves always
Of that which is most important

That the grass on this side of the fence…..

Needs to be taken care of.