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May 2025

This is Not Then
When Old Wounds Echo
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Melissa Anderson
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April 2025

Witnessing Humanness #1: Joy
Guest essay by Melissa Anderson | The Kind of Joy That Stays
Published on Just Write Mama  • 
In the Hands of the Potter, Part 1: The Clay and the Potter
What if being unfinished isn’t failure, but faith in the hands forming you?
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Melissa Anderson
1
The Rain Instead of the River
I used to not struggle with writer’s block.
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Melissa Anderson
2
So We Won't Forget...a writer collaboration
on traffic jams, doing hair, and the Holy Spirit through 11 year old eyes.
Published on We Have This Hope • 
When the Bandaids Won’t Stick
Some Weeks You Just Live in a Bath and Hope for the Best
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Melissa Anderson
1

March 2025

Breaking Up with Should
should. should've. shouldn’t have. shame. it's time to leave them behind and choose something better.
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Melissa Anderson
6
What You Don’t Hear: A Letter to the Neighbor Who Left a Note
Because childhood isn’t always quiet—and neither is growth
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Melissa Anderson
5
The Choice to Stay
A Letter to the Version of Me Who Didn’t Know Yet
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Melissa Anderson
2
The Seamstress of Souls
Threads of Love and Acts of Grace
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Melissa Anderson
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February 2025

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