Thoughts by Erica Russell

Works to Prove I Matter

Being lost in who others say you are is so lonely. It separates you from the closest Truth of your existence. Letting the image of man’s ideas instead of God’s image cover you is so heavy. Because it was never…

The Days that are Hard

Healing is a journey. Truly a trip through a wilderness until we see the Father again. Just like on any trip, there will be smooth paths, steep paths narrow roads, and wide open spaces. All the changes on the journey…

The Key

Perspective. The way you see things. How you make choices. How you choose to live. Who or what helps to shape a perspective?  For a long time, following the world’s perspective was the way I learned. I feared to go…

Because of Him

It was hard to see up  From being so far down  I was afraid I’d never climb out of that pit of despair  I’d made a home there Claiming it as safety when all along It was a prison A…

Be Still?

As I open my eyes I hope for something different on this day. But, as I look around  It seems relief is so far away. Time after time, I try to forget. But the memories  They circulate around and around…

Permission to Heal: Part 2

He wiped my tears, He held me.  He counseled me: The enemy worked hard to destroy you but He didn’t because I love you, and I have a purpose just for you to do. People around you tried to keep…

Permission to Heal

For a long, long time, I thought me holding on was because I wanted to. Somehow I’d convinced myself That it was a “horrible” thing to Release myself from the hold of the pain. I feared that I would hurt…

Legacy

Legacy. I used to wonder what that would mean for me. Would I be important enough to remember Once my flesh is laid to rest? I suppose it is out of fear that I used to ask these things. What…

The Voids

The voids are a darkness  So hard at times to fully identify in name But so easy to identity in symptom Heavy, Angry, Low Self-Worth Fear, Abused, Abandoned Just to name a few As I discover that I yet have…