This One's for the Girls

Today I have a few girls on my heart. I usually do have a few that I think about. The heavy assault on womanhood is apparent as I watch SO many of my loved ones struggle with things. I just felt like writing this today as sort of like a letter from God to me and all women. This is what I feel like I've heard him saying to me throughout my life. It's a little jumbled and hodgepodge, but it's the thoughts I want to get across.
Hopefully you can take something away from these words.

Through the Fog

Existential torture

to be a ship out on the ocean

tossed to and fro.

I feel the weight of nothing

pressing in upon my every thought

and I am crushed underneath.

The anger, the rage

the wasted days

the dizzy daze

the hopeless haze.

This has no purpose

that has no meaning

my thoughts are held captive

my emotions and my dreams

my loves and my pleasures

are dashed upon the rocks

of the world you paint

you dream

you created.

I don't want to be a part of your world anymore.

I can and will break free.

To the place where truth can be.

And I can be

me.

God grant me...

God grant me the serenity 

to accept the things I cannot change; 

courage to change the things I can;

and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time; 

Enjoying one moment at a time; 

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; 

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

as it is, not as I would have it; 

Trusting that He will make all things right

if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life 

and supremely happy with Him

Forever in the next.

Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr