Cherished {Five Minute Friday}

I cling tight to the memories – cherished moments from my past that define me.

The person I was before dirty diapers and heaping piles of dishes and laundry.

I’m who I am today because I left a small Texas town to live out my dream.

I cherish the memories in that small apartment on Cherrystone, where I felt as free and fearless as I had ever been, yet suffocated by loneliness.

I cherish the memories good and bad. I looked for love in all the wrong places, but I finally surrendered to His love. I made mistakes, but I’m stronger because of them.

Sometimes I would love to go back to that apartment for a day. Loneliness no longer plagues me, but at times I am desperate for time to just be by myself. Funny how times have changed.

When I look in the mirror and can’t remember who I am outside of being a wife and a mommy, I think about those years – the good. The bad – and I cherish them.

 

 

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