Leonie

“ I have chosen to still have eyes to see the good in this world” my first book Love Lives Here is available on Amazon. You can find me on Instagram @leonie.anderson ….Unless otherwise noted all works are my own and copyrighted.

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I love you- that is to say my heart is forever conscious of the rhythm of your breathing.

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And the days are long and tedious without you.

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Despite how broken we are we all just want to be loved. And we want to be forgiven. To have a soft hand waiting for us. And we aren’t careful when we love because we are intoxicated with the forbidden.

Excerpted from ‘ the things we find making love ‘ by Leonie Anderson

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"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

- J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

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1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

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If it brings harm to another - it is unprofitable.

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Joy is an endless sound of your voice.

Excerpted from ‘ Missing the train not knowing it travels like grief’ by Leonie Anderson

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Why do women feel so deeply?

Maybe the answer isn't that we feel too much. Maybe we simply experience the world with a depth that isn't always easy to explain. A woman who feels deeply often carries incredible strengths within that sensitivity: empathy, emotional insight, compassion, creativity, intuition, and a powerful capacity for genuine connection.

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I do not know what he was searching for in my body , so one day I started looking too.

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Nearly 1 in 3 women (about 840 million) have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner or non-partner at least once in their lifetime.

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"God is too good to be unkind, and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart."

— Charles Spurgeon

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Ephesians 3:10 reminds us that God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power at work within us.

Sometimes our prayers feel too small, our dreams seem impossible, or our circumstances make us wonder if anything can change. But this verse reminds us that God is not limited by what we can see or understand. His power is greater than our expectations, and His plans are bigger than our own.

This does not mean God will give us everything we want. Instead, it means we can trust Him to work in ways beyond what we could imagine. When we place our faith in Him, we can pray boldly, hope confidently, and surrender our future into His hands

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On being an artist by Mary Oliver from Upstream

“Of this there can be no question — creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging through the wilderness of creation who does not know this — who does not swallow this — is lost. He who does not crave that roofless place eternity should stay at home. Such a person is perfectly worthy, and useful, and even beautiful, but is not an artist. Such a person had better live with timely ambitions and finished work formed for the sparkle of the moment only.”

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And against all odds, grace still finds us.

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The greatest test of our humanness is our capacity to love beyond faults.

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And we have to recognize that someone's art doesn't have to resemble ours to be beautiful- that is how we love the world.

From Ordinary Things and Love by Leonie Anderson

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We met joy as it came, with open hands and yearning hearts.

From Ordinary Things and Love by Leonie Anderson