Tag: relationship

• Can it not be redeemed? Some thoughts on grief & shame.

  

  It is funny, isn’t it, how events, dates or seasons in the calendar can be marked with a certain mood for us. How they become marred by the shadow of a specific experience. Birthdays for me have become a little bit this way.  At first I thought, no birthdays with kids just hit different. And…

  Steph Van Rossen

  March 22, 2025

  Blog: Letters and Lattes

  Catholic, Catholicism, change, Christian, Christianity, compassion, discipleship, Easter, empathy, encouragement, faith, faithful, grace, grief, growth, Holy Week, hope, humility, kindness, Lent, love, personal development, prayer, reading, reflection, relationship, relationships, resilience, self-aware, self-compassion, self-knowledge, shame, vulnerability, writing

• maybe

  Apparently, if we don’t look after things, they can go bad -maybe even die.The garden unwateredWithersThe toy unlovedRustsThe fruit uneatenSpoils.The relationship unattendedLanguishes – maybe even dies.How terribleTo watch something with such potentialsuch hope and promisebecome dustdue to inattention.Let us chooseTo not take that which we loveFor grantedTo water the bloomsAnd watch them blossomTo take the…

  Steph Van Rossen

  April 30, 2024

  Poetry

  commitment, love, poem, Poetry, relationship