Creative Writer Meets The World

Recently, my husband and I watched the movie Courageous, which other than making me cry, was touching, powerful, inspirational, and stirred my heart.  Due to that movie and God's leading I wrote this for my birth father.  Now, usually I leave this blog for my actual writing like poetry, articles, and actual blog series, but I wanted to share this here too. Dear Jack, I know that you will probably never see or read this letter, but I am going to write it anyways because there have been many changes in my life.  Even though you have never been a part of my life through your own choices and it has been a very difficult time to feel I could ever forgive you of that especially when you wouldn’t even claim me as your own daughter.  I could never understand the one time I would ever meet you in my life, as a young impressible 12 year old girl who was about to go into Junior High, could have ever done to make you choose the choice you made that day saying t...

There are days that I wonder, There are times I imagine, Just how the life was, Before I was born, Before I came to being, Was my father a better man? Was he more kind before he knew I was to be? Was he just scared because he was young? And he didn’t know what to expect at that age? What was the romance like? Between my mom and my father? What did she truly see in him? What truly did the full winning of her heart? What made them say I do? What made it fully break? Before I was even two? So many questions that were left unanswered, So many questions I will never know, So many questions that will go unsaid, There are days that I may wonder, There are times that I imagine, I wonder what life was like, Wonder what my grandfather was like on my dad’s side, How his kindness showed when my dad was a jerk, How much my dad’s family cared even though my mom lost contact, Would they accept me now many years since that last contact? Would the...