Sad Goodbyes
My heart breaks As my son holds his son Saying goodbye to the cherub we love. He will grow inches and feet Without his father beside him. Tears for the memories that will never be The goodnight kisses The warm little hugs The nighttime baths The rowdy little feet The sleep unobserved The bubbles unpopped […]
Love Poem: Love’s Radiant Sun
When two halves of the same photon reunite, Interlocking into one brilliant beam, Any prior parings fizzle, forgotten. Like pale stars their pitiful light fades, Obliterated by the magnitude of love’s radiant sun. (Copyright Marnie L Pehrson, 2017. All rights reserved)
Love Poem: The Heart of My Castle
A love poem by Marnie L. Pehrson Climb my walls. Throw down my defenses. Find the heart of my castle. Sweep me off my feet. And whisk me away to your magical land Where dreams meet reality And love never ends.
Love Poem: Loving Rain
Diving deep Beneath the surface Lie the treasures of the heart. I had not seen the beauty there Until this friend who shines the light. Through his eyes The future bright I see, Froth with rich possibility. All my insecurities he sees, God’s partner, erasing each lovingly. What could I be? What could I do? […]
The Shack Movie: Walk on Water
I watched The Shack movie Saturday for the first time. I’ve never read the book. There was a scene in the movie where Jesus suggests the main character, Mack, take Jesus’ boat out on the lake and fish if he’d like. Mack goes alone and then some dark memories from an incident on the […]
Getting Over a Breakup: A Poem at Parting
Getting over a breakup can be incredibly painful if you weren’t the one who initiated it. One of the most perplexing challenges for me has been knowing where to put the memories and the love. Everything that once felt so beautiful and good, suddenly became tainted, suspect and/or painful. As I’ve begun to embrace the concepts of divine […]
Moving On Isn’t The Same As Letting Go
If you’re in a relationship with someone new and you’re still hanging onto someone from your past, don’t think it won’t bleed through and kill the relationship you’re in. Letting go is critical, and moving on isn’t letting go. I was listening to this song today, and it hit home. It verbalizes one of the […]
Each Person’s Healing Journey Is Unique
There are examples in scripture of people with accelerated healing or conversion experiences. We see the Saul/Paul conversion. There’s the many healing miracles of Jesus Christ. These expedited and intense healing journeys are not designed to make people feel bad whose healing takes years or a lifetime. They aren’t designed to make people feel like if they […]
My Healing Journey
If I look back on who I was 6-7 years ago before I started on a serious path of self-discovery and growth, I was emotionally numb. I was a leader. I was incredibly successful in my career. In many ways I felt fearless. I was earning a good living. I felt good about who I […]
Mentors: When the Student Is Ready The Teacher Appears
On October 6, 2015 I posted this to my Facebook wall: “I’ve taken the hero’s journey enough to know that when you have that unsettled feeling that everything is about to change but you’re groping for clarity in the dark, invariably life sends a mentor. It dawned on me this morning that it’s just about […]
How Deep Is Your Love?
I had an experience last night where all the love I have for my husband came flooding back. It’s like my love for him is stored in the cells of my body and my whole body had this big wail of a cry. It was one of the most intense emotional-physical experiences of my life […]
It’s All a Gift: How Gratitude Gave Me Peace and Closure
Over the last few weeks I’ve stepped into a deeper gratitude than I’ve ever known. In the process I’ve come to see everything I’m going through as a gift — everything I had and everything that’s been taken away. Today I had a poignant experience that helped me find closure. I had the chance to […]
Breakthrough to Freedom: Leaving the Past Behind
Over the last several weeks I’ve been working my way through Dr. John Demartini’s book, The Breakthrough Experience. This is the biggest breakthrough to freedom I have ever had. If everything I’ve been through has been to bring me to this book, it was worth it. I have gained so many insights. Such rich understanding has […]
Gratitude Is a Choice That Leads to Love
My two boys have been living with my sister for the last couple months and I see them on weekends. It’s been so weird not having them with me. My older son graduates on the 27th and then their dad wants to bring them to Utah for the summer. My graduate is off to UGA in […]
Marriage and Music: Finding the Harmony
I woke up this morning with an interesting insight into my marriage that relates to the music I’ve been playing with my family since my mother’s death.My dad, cousin Jody and I have been playing music together. My dad plays the harmonica. My cousin Jody plays the guitar and sings, and I sing along. I’ve […]
Divorce: What Marketing Taught Me About Incompatibility
This morning I was wondering about what aspects of me my husband did love. He had to have loved something at some point and probably still does. His family said they’d never seen him as happy as he’d been with me. Even they were flabbergasted at his decision to cut me off from one day […]
Challenge and Support
When anything unpleasant happens in our lives, we’ll have some people who commiserate with us and some who tell us to “get over it, let it go and move on.” Even though we don’t want to hear that second one, the second is every bit as much love as the first. Divine love contains both […]
The Embarrassment and Humiliation of Rejection
One of the waves of emotion that washes over me, perhaps once or twice a day is embarrassment and humiliation. It comes unbidden, uninvited, without warning — a sick, nauseated feeling in the pit of my stomach that spreads out all through my chest, shoulders and arms in a wash of anxiety. It’s a hammering […]
The Blessings of Pain
Had I not gone through such a heart wrenching, mysterious rejection alongside my mother’s death would I have ever known how much I am supported and loved by so many? Would I have ever known that people I’ve never even met in person would actually fast and pray for me? Would I have ever had […]
Making Room for Forgiveness
Back in 2010 I took the SimplyHealed Method(TM) training in Birmingham, AL. At the time I was dealing with some issues with my first husband. During the class, Carolyn Lyman Cooper taught us how to release things, and how to use the different energy techniques. After she taught a new concept, she’d demonstrate it with […]
