“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise” - Sylvia Plath
Worth the Walk
A memoir about finding purpose in your pain. We all have a journey, sometimes it brings us through trials, joy, pain, growth, and healing. Every single step has purpose in your story. And God is using all of this to prepare you for who you are meant to be. So when you find yourself facing hardship, know that the journey he is taking you on is worth the walk.
I found myself in the shadows of your mind
Buried beneath the memories that were met by the sun
I sat there, wondering how I became an overcast in your heart?
My love for you pouring out from the cracks you created
Cracks that were so deep, not even the light could reach them
So many questions lined the inside of my mind
Searching for the truths you harbored
But the answers were never found
Until you became dust on this earth
Your words I had been searching for
Were left in the night written with the ink of regret
Now I hold those, still in your shadows
That keep me held hostage to your forever truths
— Katie Schneider
The quiet ache of your absence
Clung to my bones like an old shadow
The stillness surrounds me
But it’s not empty
In a space where my sorrow lingered
A new quiet grows
My heart once closed in grief
Slowly opens to something new
Something more tender
Softer than I knew I could hold
I release what I lost
Beneath the weight of silence
And in its place
Find a new pulse that moves forward
Taking the past that is now a part of me
Woven into the fibers of my being
Learning to live with both the sorrow and renewal
Of a heart that dares to open again
— Katie Schneider
I stood in the quiet of my own undoing
Surrounded by the weight of absence
As if the world had forgotten to hold me
What I once thought defined me
Now seemed so distant
For awhile I believed the emptiness was all there was
That I was hollow
But in that space of nothing
Something began to stir
Not a voice but a presence
Deep within, unbroken
It wasn’t loud or demanding
Just a steady pull
A reminder of what I had buried
Beneath the surface of life
I began to listen, swallowed by the silence
The parts I had neglected
The strength I had forgotten
I had thought I was lost
In the stillness I rediscovered myself
Not just the version I had once known
Something deeper
And in that quiet truth
I found the depth I had long sought outside
Waiting within me
Untouched by time
— Katie Schneider
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