Blue Sanctuary

“No one is coming.” Shard told herself as she cried alone on her bed on a Thursday cloudy afternoon. She desperately wanted to go back to her old self, when she could focus on the bright side of life. Somehow she wanted to fight off her shadows, anger and pain but her tears betrayed her. She called out and cried out but no one could hear her. She tried to grab a helping hand but no one was offering one. She lied still on her bed, watched her tears slid across her nose and down to her cheek. She pushed herself to wait for someone to save her. The seconds felt like hours and minutes felt like days. Right there, she understood that she was alone and that no one was coming. She sat up, wiped her tears and blew her nose. She stared at the window and figured out that a good liar can never be seen crying. She stood up and went to the bathroom to wash her face. Shard’s conviction is that water can be a make up to cover the traces of her tears.

Rachele’s Story By: Shard Linch God gave you a mother. And you asked, “Where is my father?” God said, “Beloved, I gave you your mother, to stand as your father.” When you look at other people’s lives, they too are fatherless just like you, and some are motherless. But you, God said, “Rachele, Fely is a special person, a wonderful woman and the perfect soul, who could raise you according to my plans. I have chosen her and her life for you. However, if I have given you a father, you won’t be the beautiful person that I created you to be and soon that you will be…” Rest on God’s love and trust His plans. Your life today was given to you. Because your life and its pain and burden, Are the essential ingredients that will build and raise you, Into the person and soul that you were meant to be. By God. If you don’t trust God, you will doubt His plans, you will doubt its results and you alone will be nothing. Trust Him. Embrace His love. YOU are...

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Someone once told me, that I'm too goody good... I had no idea what it meant. Did it mean for me to learn how to be bad? Or that I'm trying too much to be good? I know myself and my abilities to do bad. I've lost a year and to my thought, the questions remained... I see the negative things around me. I'm not blind. I said to myself, do people like to hear bad news? I guess, they do. I don't. Hearing the bad news gives me the responsibility to act. If I know there is a problem, I urge myself to do something about it. I feel guilty when I don't... I'm an obvious type A person. Sometimes I don't agree. I genuinely think that I've motivated myself on some level. To do something somehow. My thoughts are kinda cloudy at times. Or even too deep... When you look around, you hear whats around you, you feel whats there. Then you realize, You are there to do something about it... You are not numb or dumb. You are not blind or deaf. You have a heart,,, a heart.....

Building our Nation: The Youth Perspective We are children today, but leaders tomorrow. We are known to be the next in line. The things we do will determine what we will become. We are in the process of learning, exploring and understanding the condition of our Nation. Our realizations today will be our actions in the future. We are aware of the problems and have ideas for the solution, but we are subject to act. We need to focus on what’s important from what’s pointless. Health is one big foundation of everyone’s life. Being successful and not being healthy leads to failure. The value of health will be recognized later in life. We pay the consequences not before our mistakes but after. Being physically fit gives a lot of opportunities. It widens our choices and opens door for a better life. Being healthy also gives benefits. It empowers and multiplies the abilities. It allows to do more and to reach beyond the limitation. Treat the body as a treasure, a fragile machine or a gift. If a...

Drifting away I feel lonely inside the crowd. Can hear silence in spite of the screaming voices around me. I wanna run away from this sign of emptiness that is now so powerful within my heart. I wanna push away from these walls that are suffocating me. I gotta pull away in able to soothe this fear that’s attacking me. Don’t you ask me if I’m strong! I’m still here in front of you!!! Look at me! See how I’ve tried my best to face you with nothing but this strange truth that I lay before you. I’m not pretending to be who you want me to be. I bare myself and let you see me entirely as who I am. You have seen me being weak and hoping that it makes you stronger. I have strength hidden in my soul. I just don’t know how to pull it up yet. I may be out of balance. Not knowing where I should stand if I look through my eyes. So let me close them and see through my compassion where I should be going. I’ve lied and denied to myself that I will never need someone like you to be there. But see how m...

March 28 2006 ALTERED Trapped through years in darkness of pain; Drowned myself for the truth I’ve gain. Feared to understand life in vain; For peace trade my soul in bargain. Reckon the nights you’ve tortured me; Borrow my eyes so you could see. Now torn and altered who to be; Hush, blamed no one but destiny. Then to save you was to hurt you; Wake up from dream you’ve fallen through. We’re both weaker more than we knew; Stray again you shall never do. If fragile I’m broken forever; Now hold me though hardship was over. Wounded and to be healed is never; By love I was driven and altered. I’m afraid to see what I’ll be; If you’ve finally shattered me! Driven by the past I was. Scarred eternally I am. Through battle I survived. Past is what makes me to be me. Who I am that's what I’m gonna find. I blame no one for the pain. But I am inspired by all events, Great weakness is where you pull your strength from. By...