suffering mix - by rayne fisher-quann - internet princess
to be honest: i have been in a lot of pain recently. when i was growing up, i would sometimes ask my father why things were so difficult for us — why bad things kept happening, no matter how hard we tried to be good — and he would always say that God was throwing us curveballs. i feel that God has been throwing me curveballs recently. it’s kind of funny to imagine it that way — like maybe He just got bored and wanted to play baseball again.
to be honest: i have been in a lot of pain recently. when i was growing up, i would sometimes ask my father why things were so difficult for us — why bad things kept happening, no matter how hard we tried to be good — and he would always say that God was throwing us curveballs. i feel that God has been throwing me curveballs recently. it’s kind of funny to imagine it that way — like maybe He just got bored and wanted to play baseball again. anyway. i’ve been in a lot of pain. the idea of sharing purely confessional trauma-porn makes me uncomfortable, so i may spare the gorey details until…
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