Gratitude
Be Encouraged
There are a lot of giants just waiting to challenge us. They know their power is small compared to God's, so they rely on our own low self- worth that they have created in us. They plant in our mind that we "can't, won't, shouldn't or wouldn't" so that we don't pursue those hopes or dreams that we have.
By Colleen Waltersabout a year ago in Poets
Stars and Soil
I wear red, white, and blue with the kind of pride that comes from choice— from packing roots into carry-ons, and chasing a flag that promised room. I light sparklers for freedom, wave stripes in the sun, not forgetting for a second that my fire was first lit in the Andes, that my heartbeat still hums in Quechua rhythms, in my mother’s accent, in the stories that didn’t need translation. I’m proud to be here— to have walked into this dream before it got priced like a gated parade, before visas became golden tickets for those already fed. Yes—laws matter. Lines matter. But what about the hands still reaching through barbed hope? What about the children whose only crime is wanting a sky that doesn’t shoot back? So today, I’ll hold both truths— this country I love, and the ache for what it’s forgotten. Because freedom was never meant to be exclusive. And liberty shouldn't come with a receipt.
By Carolina Borgesabout a year ago in Poets
