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Epiphanies Part II The Architecture of the New Self It is much easier to start tidying up than to continue wallowing in your mess. A cluttered space taints the ability to interact with your environment effectively, whether that be relaxing or creating. Your home is a living, breathing ecosystem. Take care of it like you would a child. If you are not happy after experiencing trauma because nothing is changing and you feel stuck, do the 180 degree opposite of what you have been doing. For example, if you have kept it inside and secret, speak it or write it publicly. If you have been telling everyone incessantly about it, stop talking about it for a while and see if it doesn't go away.  You are exactly as God created you. Nothing you've done or that has been done to you can change that. Take comfort in this. Likewise, your enemy is exactly as God created him. Make peace with this. As you are lifted up, you lift up everyone else. This is the law of collective elevation: Because we ...

Annotated the Sides

 by Hannah Janicke



You may feel powerful

Sitting atop your throne of 

Male-White-Christian 

Separateness


But I’ve been blessed with 

The ability to see what you are too

Scared to see


“The Muslims are terrorists, they 

Burn Christians. The Quran is evil.

Muslims pray to the east and west- 

Their false God.”


I’ve been born into Islamophobia, yet 

I saw through it when I was young.

Naturally, curiously,

I ordered an English Quran 

Online, to learn about this religion 


When my fathers lips 

spew out hatred,

I see a demon 

Caressing his soul


While he gets indignant,

I watch a demon

Cloak his body in a suit 

and veil his eyes so that

He can no longer see 

Anything other than

what’s in his mind


I offer to loan him my Quran 

So he can see that

Muslims and Christians are quite

Alike actually, I even 

Highlighted the passages of peace


With this,

He flew into a rage,

“Why have you read the Quran 

Page for page but you 

Have not read the Bible 

Front to back?”


Calmly responding to his attack,

I said, “Actually, I have. Many times,

and I even annotated the sides.”


He doesn’t see through 

the opaque veil 

Over his eyes


When you’re busy pointing out 

A speck in your brother’s eye,

You don’t even realize

That you too have

A bigger one in yours


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