A blog where I share my creative process.
My thoughts spill over me like a wave pulling me further still from the shore. I continue to put up walls, unbreakable walls. The faster the thoughts crash over me, the deeper I sink. Confusion is tied to my ankle like a ball and chain.
Sometimes we don’t realize we have the tools to detach the ball and chain. It is not good for man to be alone. Walk along with others; they say that laughter is the world’s best medicine.
~Ellie LaGrange
I recently was in a Bible study with a group of girls, this is what I wish I would’ve known before going into it:
Never go into a group setting with the mindset of “what can I get out of this?” I find this mindset to be crippling because MOST of the time, it won’t go the way you had planned and you will end up being sorely dissappointed.
Instead, go in with the mindset of “how can I pour into others?” As a result of this mindset, you will be constructing positivity in others. This creates a chain reaction. I find that when one opens up in front of a group, it lifts the weight off of other’s shoulders.
You have to be willingly vulnerable in front of others. Allow yourself to be 100% honest.
~Ellie LaGrange
~You are wonderfully made~
Happiness fades into a void. No more color, light, or life. Happiness changes like the seasons, falling with the autumn leaves, stripped bare like the winter trees, flourishing like with the spring flowers, and becoming bright like the summer sun in a summer sky. Smiles fade into the dusk as quickly as the sun comes up.
Joy holds like palm trees in a hurricane. Joy is there through the storm and in the serenity of a still water. Joy grows on the tree, staying ever green, from dawn until dusk, in the storm and in the calm through the endless cycle of seasons.
Happiness is temporary, Joy lasts forever.
Seek Joy.
~Ellie LaGrange
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