Susie's Blogs

He thinks the world revolves around him. He desperately craves attention and uses this to his advantage. Don't be fooled if he acts super nice around others. Behind closed doors he'll make you feel useless, stupid, unworthy, and will put himself above you. He'll threaten you with things you dream in life and all of the imperfections that lie within yourself. It's all a game. Don't let that game fool you. Go along with it until you find an escape. Until then, you will be free.

To spread God's love, I began volunteering at Daybreak Shelter with my mom who heard about it from a lady at the school she works at. It made my heart ache that the poor are alienated and thought of as somewhat dangerous outliers of society and are best avoided. This is very disheartening and is a huge phenomena that is untrue. Waking up early at four in the morning, multiple times in the cold crisp winter helping make breakfast for the homeless people in the area showed me love and hope for change. Not only for change in myself as an individual but also for others who are suffering more deeply than I had been. As another year has passed, my health began to improve and I stopped taking medicine for my illness. The first year of high school is always hard for everyone but I remembered to keep faithful and happy. Every morning I sent a good morning text to my mom and sister with a quote from the bible and explained how it applied to me or something I can do that day to spread love a...

Most Children try to get out of going to school. Sometimes it was by faking your sickness, putting a hot washcloth on your head to increase the temperature like a fever, or making sounds to pretend your throwing up. This wasn’t a trick. This was a talent. There were the two of us, creating a secret plan to convince our parents to let us stay home. Either you gave it your all or you got caught lying and were sent to school. You wouldn’t lose anything but your hopes. My hopes, and my sisters hopes, depended on our special talent and faith in eachother. But if your parents caught on after several attempts of acting like you are not feeling well--then you would likely start crying and begging them to just let you take a day off of school. Most of the time, though, it was our mother who caught on. Nothing we did could stop our Mom. As time flew over us, we didn’t want to stay home anymore because of the homework you got if you were absent and we were getting older. In late spring, I got ...