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squishy heart


this is me

i cry

i cry on good days(obviously)

i cry on bad days (been going that a bit too much)

i cry watching adverts

i cry in movies and listening to certain music

i cry watching extreme makeover home edition

i cry reading about baby Ollie and her amazing family

i cry watching the news

i cry thinking about babies being abandoned

i really have a squishyheart

and i don't think it is a bad thing

sometimes other people do

i remember in fashion school i was once hauled into my lecturer's office and told to toughen up because my squishyheart would not handle the fashion world

at other times i, by my own hand, added cement and brick to build up a wall around it

i think it even became stone at times

i think God has been reminding me that He made me this way, the squishyheart way

i think what He has done as well, to make it a squishyheart that doesn't just pump lumpy custard, is burden me to take action

 there is a something a brewing



love ya muchly
Philippa



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