by Abigail Alleman | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
I run around the lake sun peaking over the horizon. And I feel it. Life. My body stays in motion as I round the water. The fine mist of dawn takes on glimmers of gold. It’s the promise. Every morning a sunrise. The great hope of Day. I breathe in and out....
by Abigail Alleman | May 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
May is an all-together unique month.Growing up it was the exciting month of my birthday.It was also the time of ‘May flowers’. Of lacrosse championships, and yes, disappointing losses. It was the month of awards banquets and another school year ending.Then...
by Abigail Alleman | May 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Like a newborn baby, skin so soft, eyes so wide open or in precious slumber, hair silky from a fresh bath, swaddled in cotton–I awoke to life, to a New Day. It was just after three days unable to breathe, unable to do for myself. I was in a cocoon of unknown.Hope is a...
by Abigail Alleman | Apr 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
I lay on my right side. The spinning, buzzing of my hyper-manic mind still wreaks havoc in my waking and especially my sleeping. I am curled like a little child, hands under my cheek, eyes on him.My beloved speaks slow and strong the words of the psalms. I let my eyes...
by Abigail Alleman | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
I stand in front of 500 women. I speak words which sing in my soul. I am filled with overflowing passion as I talk about the elements of story and how God redeems it all.Less than one month later, I am laying, sedated beyond recognition, in a white-walled mental...
