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SPRING WRITING CONTEST WINNER, 2027 SARAH TEMPLE “HOPE AND RENEWAL”

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SPRING 2027 POETRY CONTEST WINNER

Winning Author: Sarah Temple

Winning Entry:

Finding Hope

At 15, I lost hope walking into the burn unit at university in Denver. My 13yr brother by my side, we spoke to dr.s walked into a unit caught a glimpse of what remained of our father.

Those memories haunt, they linger as he lived 4 days 4 long days.

There was no help for the trauma we felt.

We became a product of our environment and lost to the streets.

At 15, I watched a gang shooting.

Nothing like t.v. each person being shot had a different reaction . But, each one had the same reaction as far as running. My reaction was to be still . Something said be still inside. So I just stayed as everything happened. This realization that was now slow motion as one person falls to his knees and another being pulled into a car.

This is happening before me.

My friends, these people I hung out with I’m now paying a price forever.

At age 25, I got pregnant my due date was the same time as my brother’s.

My brother got the winning hand in this game as I laid my stillborn daughter to rest.

It was through my pregnancy I learned HOPE. I found the true meaning of happiness. I felt life grow and live inside. I wanted better not only for her but myself. After she passed, I had a choice to stay on my new journey or go back to my old ways.

I chose this new journey. Finding light in the darkness.

 

Meet the Winning Author!!

Sarah Temple

My name is Sarah Temple. I was born and raised in Denver, CO. I’m 37 years old, and while my plans for life haven’t worked out like I planned, I have found joy and purpose through writing, caretaking and helping my younger sister raise her two beautiful children.

I began writing at a young age to help cope with various health issues.

I experienced my first flight for life flight at age seven- years- old. I was diagnosed as having a seizure disorder. This as well as several other problems happening in my home life caused concern for my mental health. It took several years and more doctors than I can count to find a course of treatment that improved things. Writing is what helped me express myself during all of this. I could vent while also keeping track of my world around me. While I tried to make sense of it all. It was a turbulent ride to say the least.

While I have moved to other states, I have found that my heart is in Colorado.

I now live with my grandmother who is in her eighties. I enjoy taking care of people who need help. Even the one’s who are stubborn. I enjoy the fact that I’ve been able to teach and grow with each person I’ve helped, as we learn from each other.

All in all, I’m truly blessed to have the life I have.

Encouragement from the Team @ Daily Wisdom Words:

Sarah Temple!!  Congratulations, Sarah!  We are so proud of you!  Your writing is beyond amazing!!  There were many entries that were excellent but your writing truly shined.  From all of us at Daily Wisdom Words, we wish to welcome you to our writing community!  It is an honor to have you as the winner of the Spring Writers Contest!  Your story was full of hope and full of inspiration to all. Welcome to the daily wisdom words family!

Congratulations!

Samantha Leboeuf-Founder

Daily Wisdom Words LLC.

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY “THE PRICELESS GIFT”

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL MOTHER’S OUT THERE……………

5/9/2027

Nothing more priceless than a Mother.  I think of my Mom and always my heart warms.  I am a very analytical person, and watch for examples subconsciously I am still learning from my mother.  She is an example her daughters and her son Carl wish to see.  She lost her daughter and yes, my sister this past year.  There is a first for everything, and sadly, this will be her first Mother’s Day without Jenny.  Jenny and my mother talked daily and remained so close despite the distance.  During 2019 and 2020, my mom visited her while my baby sister suffered with head and neck cancer, called squeamish cell carcinoma.  I hate that name and wish I could wipe it away but life and reality doesn’t work like that. 

Jenny was a beautiful mother herself, and she left behind two beautiful girls, my nieces, Luma and Isabella.  Today should be joyful, and my sister should still be here well and happy spending Mother’s Day with her daughters. 

I think of how many mothers are gone due to Covid-19, yet am still overwhelmed with grief and tears when I think of Jenny.  My mother I am sure, is having a very hard time today, but she is so strong, and will put a smile on her face and celebrate it with me, my son and daughter-in-law and Jay, my children’s dad and yes, her beautiful new great grandson, Logan James. 

Just to update you all, two baby boys arrived within 24 hours over the past week.  Technically Easton, my daughter’s beautiful boy she is a mother to, was born early evening and 10-12 hours passed when I received the news of my son and daughter-in-laws  bundle of joy having been born, Logan James.  Their birthday’s are officially one day apart but it all blurred together for me.  I knew my daughter would be okay along with baby, but couldn’t help but worry about my daughter-in-law who ended up with a medical  issue and baby one month early.  She is fine and home now with baby as of today, thank God.   

My mother would want me to o dedicate this first Mother’s Day without Jen to her and that is what I want to do.  I want everyone out there to know just how special she was in so many ways especially as a mother.  Jen had such wisdom and basically raised her girls alone.  She did it all.  She was a mother, daughter, sister, and friend to so many.  My heart bleeds for her girls today.  They don’t have a dad there to help them through.  My sister was one efficient individual.  She did it all.  I look back and wonder how she did what she did which was a miracle in itself and she did it all so well.

Her first child, a beautiful girl, Hillary, died six days prior to her third birthday.  My sister just about lost it for good, but was strong enough to love again and gave birth to two beautiful girls who she worried sick about 24-7 and loved so very much.  I won’t pretend to be able to feel my mother’s sadness or grief.  I won’t pretend to be able to feel how my nieces feel.  I can only hope with faith, love and time, we will  be close and in some way I can give to them some comfort as their Aunt. 

I think it very important to acknowledge Mother’s Day from both angles.  This would be how I feel about my own mother who I love and completely treasure and honor.  The loss still hurts too much for me, so I won’t pretend to get how she feels or my nieces pain.  I do know how sad they must feel this first Mother’s Day without her.  The loss is still too great for us all.   I wrote a poem I shared on facebook and instead of anger and blame, I choose to see this differently.  God does give us choices and I choose to remember how bright her blue eyes were and how she lives on in both my nieces in their beauty and grace.

I want to wish every mother in the world a Happy Mother’s Day and remember what is, and the good in what was.  I hope my children know my love for them.  They both amaze me is so many ways.  I want you, Mom, to make a choice to remember the happiness we all shared from very different perspectives. 

Happy Mother’s Day Mom.  There simply are NO words that can express my love for you and I am so very sorry I am short on the phone and I will do my best to try harder because life is just “too short”.  YOU are so loved MOM and still are by your baby girl.  The things in Life we can’t see hold the most beauty.  Love is my first choice.  I love you with all my heart.  Thank you so very very much, Mom.You truly make life worth living and set an example as the kind of mother I can only hope to be.  I appreciate you and treasure you and the times together we share. 

Your daughter, Samantha.  “We will remember you forever Jen and all the beauty and love you brought each of us”. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY             “THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GIFTS YOU GIVE WE CAN’T SEE “

“Mom, thank you for showing us what being a wonderful Mother means by examples you set for us over the years”   

2027   “Happy Mothers Day Mom….I find myself wordless when I think of how much I love you”

“The examples set through actions, kindness and traditions I thank you for, though love and selflessness are devotion, you show us what it means to be a wonderful Mom, I am thankful and will always will be.  Remember, the most “beautiful things in this world are the things we can’t see” I love you so very very much to the moon and back.  Your daughter,  Samantha

 

 

DEATH HOW DO LOVED ONES COPE LEFT BEHIND?

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DEATH MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS.  THERE ARE FEW WORDS THAT I HAVE EVER DEBATED WRITING ON, BUT DEATH WOULD BE ONE OF THEM.  I will start off with an acronym for death- (D)arkness (E)ternal  (A)fter  (T))ime  (H)alts.  This seems grim but I believe there is another step to this which allows us that allows our soul to be taken to Heaven and we return home to our maker.  My acronym for death is for the few minutes we share with the physical entity of one soul who is now headed home.  I think the hardest part about death is Why?  “Why did this person have to go?” 

It is hard for me to believe that the above analogy is it for us.  How did we get here?  Someone could explain science to me all day long, and never shake my feeling of the beauty of birth and the sadness shared in watching someone die.  I lost my sister at the end of June this past year.  It has had a grave effect on the lives left behind including mine.  Hope seems dim where it once was light inside me.  I. find myself sad a lot.  I had a naive belief that I would just heal and get past this, but Ladies and Gentlemen, I am here to share with you if you have lost someone close to you yet, you will understand my feelings better.  Sometimes Jenny’s death does not seem real.  I look at all the results her love she had in great abundance is not simple at all.  She left “ripples” in other’s lives which at the moment feel like huge holes. 

She left behind so many including me who loved her so.   I feel like it’s okay to be so sad about her loss as long as I am careful not to share it with others even closer to her.  She fed love to others through her music.  She made love happen in a family unit she created.  She was powerful and had the ability to change someone’s life for the better.  Not only could she be trusted, but she was also so passionate in all she said.  I doubt a “fake” word ever came out of her mouth.  She had amazing self-control.  She could hold out from doing the wrong thing for the overall good.  She was truly powerful.  “As they say, we get back two-fold what we give.  Jenny created spades. 

She was a lover of mermaids and the ocean and she was truly fierce.  Why Lord did I not see this so clearly while she was here?  I should have told her more often just how proud I was and how thankful I was to have her as my sister.  Her husband she married, was truly the love of her life.  These were her words, not mine.  How do we get used to speaking of her in the past tense?  When will the “is” become “was”, naturally?  The thing that happens when these individuals die, is what is called “the rippling effect”.  Our family life and her friends and husband will forever be changed from their interactions and moments shared with her.  She wasn’t afraid to live LIFE. She took the kind of chances that were known as high risk, high reward.  She had the bravery to do so while I played it safe. 

Her daughters (my nieces) are so beautiful and in each of them, you see some of her.  She made the time for what she needed to.  She made loyal and true friends and many of them.  I am lucky to find a few.  Family to her was her friends as her extended family.  Her actions told her story.  Her smile, so strained this past year from pain, lit up a room and her laugh made others do the same.  They say we idealize those who die.  Every word I have written here is the truth.  Today, call someone who lives out of state that is part of your family how much you “love them”.  I was even there when Jenny passed away, her beautiful blue eyes so full of life, slowly moved forward to another place.  I call it heaven and I believe she had an “all-access” pass to it.  

Samantha Leboeuf

 

 

 

FORGIVENESS “HAPPY EASTER”

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HAPPY EASTER, DAILY WISDOM WORD MEMBERS AND FRIENDS!  I COULDN’T THINK OF A BETTER DAILY DAILY WISDOM WORD TO CHOOSE THAN FORGIVENESS.  IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO FORGIVE SOMETIMES.  WE FIND IT ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT WHEN WE ARE THOUGHT OF OR ACCUSED OF SOMETHING WE HAVEN’T DONE OR AN EMPTY ACCUSATION.  ON THE OTHER HAND, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FORGIVE THOSE WHO MISTREAT US OR HAVE HURT US IN SOME WAY, SOMETIMES WITH EVENTS THEY CAUSED THAT ARE UNFORGIVABLE.  THERE IS AN OLD SAYING WHEN I FIND MYSELF ANGRY INSTEAD OF FORGIVING.  “THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO”.  I DON’T EVEN REMEMBER SPECIFICALLY WHERE I HEARD THIS FROM BUT KNOW I HAVE SAID IT MANY TIMES TO MYSELF.  I ALSO DO MY BEST TO DRAW LINES IN THE SAND OF WHAT I AM ACCOUNTABLE FOR AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS FROM OTHERS FOR THESE MISTAKES THAT HURT THEM.  

HONESTLY, I WOULD BE LYING IF I SAID IT WAS EASY FOR ME TO FORGIVE.  IF ANYTHING I FIND MYSELF FILLED WITH ANGER AND ANGST AND ILL THOUGHTS TOWARDS THE ONES WHO HURT ME.  I THEN SAY A PRAYER ASKING FOR THEIR HEALING OR SOMEHOW MINE.  WHAT MOST OF US DON’T REALIZE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE HURT INSIDE OVER SOMEONE WHO HAS IN SOME WAY HURT US.  WE  ARE ANGRY BECAUSE WE DON’T UNDERSTAND.  WHAT WE OFTEN DON’T REALIZE IS THIS ANGER, AND YES, SOMETIMES HATRED IF THE INDISCRETION IS A VERY DIFFICULT ONE TO FORGIVE INSIDE IF WE DO NOT EXERCISE THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS.  THAT IS RIGHT, IT HURTS US MORE INSIDE THATN IT HURTS THEM.  SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO FORGIVE ACTIONS SUCH AS HARMING US PHYSICALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY, OR MENTALLY.  WHAT HAPPENS IS WE BEGIN TO FILL OURSELVES WITH HATRED AND ANGER, SPITE AND HURT? THIS LEAVES WITHIN US A BLACK SCAR THAT WE FEEL ALWAYS BY NOT LETTING GO OF WHATEVER THEY HAVE DONE.  

I OFTEN HEAR THINGS LIKE “THERE IS NO WAY SAMANTHA EVEN FOR MYSELF I COULD EVER FORGIVE WHO HAS HURT ME IN WAYS CLOSE TO MY HEART.”  HOWEVER,  WHEN WE FILL UP WITH ANGER, HURT, OR RESENTMENT WE LEAVE LESS ROOM FOR THE LOVE AND BEAUTY WE DESERVE BUT DON’T HAVE ROOM FOR.  BY FORGIVING THEIR ACTIONS,  THESE KINDS OF FEELINGS EVENTUALLY DISSIPATE.  I AM NOT SUGGESTING IF SOMEONE WHO CONTINUES TO HURT US OVER AND OVER WE STAY CONNECTED WITH THEM.  WHAT I AM SUGGESTING IS MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR LIFE AND FORGIVING THEM WITH EACH FORWARD STEP AWAY FROM THEM.  WE ONLY HURT OURSELVES.

FOR THOSE OF US WHO DO BELIEVE THAT JESUS ROSE ON EASTER AFTER HE WAS MURDERED IN A HORRIFIC WAY, REMEMBER THIS:  HE FORGAVE HIS TRUSPASSORS. A PRAYER I OFTEN SAY HAS A PASSAGE WITHIN IT, ASKING THE LORD TO “FORGIVE US FOR OUR OWN TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US.”.   I FIND THIS ESPECIALLY COMFORTING, AND WHEN I’M FEELING HORRIDLY ANGRY, I REMEMBER THIS AND SAY THE FULL PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS TO MYSELF.  WHEN LOVE IN OUR HEARTS, AND BEING SOMEONE WHO IS CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE. WHEN A MISTAKE TURNS TO DELIBERATE ACTION DONE OVER ANDD OVER ON A TRANSGRESSORS END. ESPECIALLY HABIT PATTERNS REPETITIVE, DONE OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WE MUST REALIZE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE AND WE CANNOT CHANGE THEM!

ACCEPTANCE  IS ONE STEP TO HELP US LET GO AND MOVE TOWARDS ACCEPTANCE. THIS WOULD BE A GREAT STEP.  OF COURSE IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS, WE ARE SAD, THEN ANGRY.  SOME OF US ARE SO ANGRY IT ABSORBS THEIR MIND AND HEART.  HOW CAN WE HAVE ANY PEACE AND FORGIVENESS IF WE ARE FULL OF HATE?  I HAVE FOUND IT  HELPFUL WHEN WE END ANY RELATIONSHIP DYSFUNCTIONAL, WE RELY  ON THINKING OF THEM AS IF THEY HAD TERMINAL CANCER “THEY ARE SICK” AND AGAIN WE MUST FORGIVE TO LET GO AND MOVE FORWARD TOWARDS A BRIGHT FUTURE.  WE DO NOT LEARN ANYTHING WHEN WE ARE TRYING TO APPEAR PERFECT.  IT IS THROUGH HONESTY WITH OURSELVES AND LEARNING THE LESSONS LEFT BEHIND FROM THESE EXPERIENCES.

PERHAPS THEY BULLY, HURT, AND KICK US WHEN WE ARE DOWN.  WE NEED TO OBVIOUSLY FORGIVE BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, GET WAY FROM THIS  UNACCEPTABLE SITUATION EVEN IF LOVE IN OUR HEARTS STILL EXISTS. THERE WOULD, OF COURSE, BE SADNESS, BUT ANGER IS NEXT.  NOT ONLY MUST WE FORGIVE THEM, WE MUST LET GO.  WE ALSO NEED TO ACCEPT WE DID PLAY SOME ROLE IN THIS BY ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN MORE THAN ONCE BEFORE WE LEFT.

WE MUST MOVE TO A HIGHER GROUND REMINDING OURSELVES WE ARE A PART OF THE PROBLEM BY STAYING NEAR THIS PERSON.  WE WANT TO BE FOCUSED ON MOVING FORWARD AS I MENTIONED AND FINDING SOLUTIONS.  THIS BENEFITS US FOR THE HIGHER GOOD OF MANKIND ITSELF AND YES, OUR OWN HEART.  REMEMBER, IF YOU DON’T FORGIVE ANOTHER, THERE MAY COME A TIME YOUR HURT  BY ANOTHER PERSON AND HOPE THAT THEY FIND IT IN THEIR HEART TO FORGIVE US. 

I DO BELIEVE WHEN WE FORGIVE WE HAVE ROOM FOR ALL THE LIGHT AND LOVE IN THIS WORLD WE THEN CAN EXPERIENCE.  WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO LIVE IN TRUTH  FEELING THIS PAIN BUT PROCESSING IT WITH A PROFESSIONAL AND THE TRAUMA LEFT BEHIND. ULTIMATELY WE THEN CAN MOVE FORWARD.    IT MAY BE HARDER TO FIND LIGHT, LOVE & BEAUTY SOMETIMES MORE THAN OTHERS, IF WE ARE PERSISTENT AND LEAVE TRANSGRESSIONS BEHIND, WE FIND IT MUCH EASIER TO SEE IT IN TIMES OF DARKNESS.  I WISH YOU ALL A VERY SPECIAL EASTER FILLED WITH LOVE, LIGHT BLESSINGS, AND YES, FORGIVENESS. ONE LAST THING MOST IMPORTANT THAN ALL OF THE ABOVE, “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE UP HIS SON SO WE COULD BE FORGIVEN.  YES, IT MAY REQUIRE GREAT SACRIFICE TO FORGIVE, ESPECIALLY IF WE HAVE HAVE BEEN HURT BY HORRID TRANSGRESSION(S) BUT IT IS ABOUT HEALING AND OUR CHOICES. 

WE DO IT FOR THE GREATER GOOD FOR OURSELVES, HUMANITY, AND GOD.  I WAS THINKING ABOUT ONE WHO HAS REMINDED ME FORGIVENESS DOES BRING LIGHT, LOVE, AND SOMETIMES BEAUTY MANIFESTING ITSELF INTO LOVE BY FORGIVING.  I HAVE A FRIEND WHO I TREASURE VERY CLOSE TO MY HEART.  OVER THE THREE YEARS OF OUR FRIENDSHIP, SHE HAS HURT ME SEVERAL TIMES WHICH I HAVE FORGIVEN.  NOW, SHE IS MUCH MORE HUMBLE, ACCOUNTABLE AND KIND, AND I KNOW FORGIVING HER HAS BROUGHT ME A LOVELY GARDEN FROM DEAD DIRT WITH NO SEEDS.  THERE IS HOPE IN THIS WORLD,  THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR READING AND MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL TODAY, ESPECIALLY.  HAPPY EASTER, SAMANTHA……