The Quill of Samantha Grace Newcastle

2016

  • Be Yourself….. Be real…..

    The trash man can have the the voices that tell you to toughen up, like feeling deeply is some kind of flaw, like tears are cracks instead of proof that something inside you is alive enough to break.Some of the strongest people I know cry every single day and still get up, still show up,… Read more

  • losses change the play book

    It was not just the betrayal. It was the audacity, the way someone who laughed with you, prayed with you, and knew your vulnerabilities still chose to hurt you as if you were disposable, or a project ; one of many rather than singularly valuableThat is what unsettles you. You begin replaying conversations, revisiting moments,… Read more

  • Worshiping from the lions den

    Daniel 6:16–22 is one of those passages that takes us straight into the tension between human power and divine authority. The king gives the command, and Daniel is brought and cast into the den of lions, but even in that moment the king speaks a word of hope: “Thy God whom thou servest continually, he… Read more

  • Responding to your “it”

    DEPRESSION you think you can drain me and call it truth you tell me I am nothing over and over like repetition makes it real IT DOES NOT You are a distortion not a verdict And I am still here Breathing Existing Living in a world you said I would not survive That alone proves you wrong BIPOLAR DISORDER you… Read more

  • for a moment

    We sit with ourselves more often than we admit, in the quiet spaces between moments, where memory drifts in unannounced, soft as light, heavy as stone. We think of years gone by, of faces that once filled our days, of laughter that echoed longer than we realized, and of losses that carved their names into… Read more