“From Dark Rises Love” by lauramae

The darkness seeped in, slowly covering your eyes with a sticky film of filth and disease.

You used to smile once, before the pain and sorrow of a broken family,

Trying to rise above the flames of destruction.

Tears would stain your guitar as the night enveloped you with terrors

Of choices taken and a life not making... falling short before God,

Justification for actions... the hole sunk deeper and fears crumbled walls

Of love and truth, distorting His beauty.

But you can't hear Him knocking, you can't hear him knocking...

Your pride isn't willing to let go of the sin that is holding you back

From a love so bright--- it consumes the night...

My Other Half, My North Star

When I think of my husband I can't help but thank god for how blessed I am. When I hear his voice, when I look into his eyes, and when I hold his hand... I realize that God loves me more than anything I can imagine. 
I have a love in my life that makes me whole. He is a man of God, studious, strong, spiritual, disciplined, loving, kind, silly, handsome, and ambitious. Everything I needed, but didn't know it was what I was searching for. 
He uplifts and supports me, catching my every fall. Instead of lowering my standards, I raised them higher knowing I am of infinite worth & beauty. 
Marriage in a way, is like being baptized, cleansed of all filth, sin, dirt, & debris to be brought together as a working unit towards a world full of fear, anger, confusion, bitterness & sorrow. 
So thank you God, I would be lost without my north star at my side. You Lord are a miracle worker and I promise to do my best alongside my husband in this whirlwind of life.


by Laura Van Buskirk-Sifuentes