Poetry by Esther Claus I refuse to sit in stories that broke me, to hold up pain like it still owns me. 
I will not place the past before my feet,
 those old ghosts of shame, anger and defeat. I refuse to be a prisoner
 of someone else’s harm. I refuse to let my story
 be shaped by their sin. 
I am not what happened to me. I am what I chose to become. But the body remembers
 what the mind cannot bear, the subconscious whispers 
what the voice cannot share. There was no way I

What Really Matters Beyond Spiritual Bypass The Phenomenon of Spiritual Awakening You open social media, and everywhere you look, people are claiming to be “spiritually awakened.” Everyone talks about “After my spiritual awakening,” but very few share what actually awakened. I started asking myself the same question, because awakening looks different for everyone. For some, it’s a sudden insight: “In one moment, I saw it all.” For others, clarity has always been present, and