Rebecca Lynn Erskine writes inspirational postings on Facebook, this is an unofficial collection I have made of some of her work. I hope that you are inspired by her writings as much as I have.
David.
The simple truth is, sometimes you'll hurt so much,
you'll tell yourself that this time you won't make it.
And the beautiful thing is, you'll be wrong. Cause you will make it.
And the other beautiful thing is, you won't ever have to be alone.
9 Aug 2010
It's hearing from a friend, that they believe in you.
That they know you're strong, that makes it real.
That makes you grasp the fact that it's true.
It's knowing you're never alone, no matter what life throws at you.
That makes you say, go ahead life, throw what you want at me, I can take it.
7 Aug 2010
Listen. Learn. Love. Laugh. Live.
6 Aug 2010
Stronger. It's what you get when you push past everything thats tried to keep you down.
It's digging deeper within yourself to find the strength to overcome the darkest of nights.
Cause the morning light comes, bringing hope. You'll be brand new and stronger.
Falling down, but not staying down. After all this has passed, I still will remain.
Stronger than ever.
3 Aug 2010
Happiness comes from putting others first.
Not concentrating on all the things going wrong, but remembering the right things that fall into place.
It's remembering love when you think the only thing that surrounds you is hurt.
31 July 2010
When you feel like breaking, just remember how strong you are.
And when you can't seem to see the strongness and beauty in you,
try seeing yourself through the eyes of those who love you.
They'll see you clearly than you'll see youself.
26 July 2010
The walls we build around us to keep out the pain, also keep out the happiness.
You got to choose. Do you take the risk, and find happiness in the hurt.
Or stay hidden. Closed off. Never feeling anything.
Hurt, is the worst company. It wears out its welcome.
You got to jump, even if there's a fall coming.
...Even when you fall, there's precious lessons to be learned from being on bottom.
24 Jul 2010
You're scared, if you let people in, they'll just hurt you.
But you're already hurting.
What more do you have to lose, when you're already on rock bottom.
Take that first step. There's other people in the world,
because we were never meant to be alone in our lives.
23 July 2010
This is the start of something new. Something beautiful.
Even if its the night time right now. The new day is coming.
A time of happiness is gonna come. Just know it. Cause the pain, it can't last forever. Seasons change. And I'm not letting the hurt hold me down any longer.
No, gonna turn the music up really loud,
...and for the first time in forever,
I'm just gonna dance till I'm laughing and can't stop.
17 July 2010
Something so easy to tell someone else, yet so hard to accept about ourselves.
It shouldn't be arrogant to see the beauty in ourselves, to see the strength we have inside.
All those millions of times, we swore that we wouldn't make it through.
But we did. Cause we're here. And we're beautiful and we're stronger.
15 July 2010
Think my purpose is to be there for people..encourage them,
be there when they need someone to talk to who won't judge..
But that's not greatness.
That's a kindness we should all show one another.
12 July 2010
I think, pain is like gravity.
It keeps our feet on the ground. Without bad things in our lives,
would we really appreciate the good?
If we only had blue skies, soon we'd take it for granted cause we'd just expect it.
But when there's days of storms, when that blue sky comes, and the sun shines again, we notice it.
A beautiful day. A present from God.
11 July 2010
The walls we build around us to keep out the pain, also keep out the happiness.
You got to choose. Do you take the risk, and find happiness in the hurt. Or stay hidden.
Closed off. Never feeling anything. Hurt, is the worst company. It wears out its welcome.
You got to jump, even if there's a fall coming.
Even when you fall, there's precious lessons to be learned from being on bottom.
10 July 2010
I got a lot to learn. Still fake some smiles. Still carry some pain in my heart.
The bad days of the past are never far behind. I still have tears that need to be cried.
Words that need to be said. Dreams to be lived out. Won't expect anyone to not pull me down.
Cause someone always will try.
10 July 2010
I give my heart away so easily. And it always ends badly.
But I never stop. Because every ounce of pain, I use for the cause of creating beauty.
Will I ever stop sharing my hope and strength, even though it hurts me at times?
No. Cause that's my purpose in this world.
To give all I have, and hope that good comes.
9 July 2010
Deep down, we always know what the right thing to do is.
The hard part is getting ourselves motivated to go through with it.
Rarely is the right thing to do easy. There's never an easy way out.
And sometimes the consequences, don't outweigh the pain.
You give and give, and don't always get anything back.
But does that mean you stop giving?
8 July 2010
When you think you need to save everyone, to fix every problem,
remember, the world doesn't rest on your shoulders.
God's hands are bigger than ours for a reason.
We do what we can with what He give us and it's always a part of His plan.
7 July 2010
Being hurt is a part of being alive. Truly living is feeling things.
Taking one step in front of the other, and trying not to be discouraged when you fall a step or two behind.
Cause life isn't lived in a straight perfect line.
No there's rocks that get thrown in your path and sometimes you got to take some steps back to get ahead.
6 July 2010
When you think you need to save everyone, to fix every problem,
remember, the world doesn't rest on your shoulders.
God's hands are bigger than ours for a reason.
We do what we can with what He gives us and it's always apart of His plan.
04 July 2010
You find someone who sees the beauty in you, when you can't see it yourself.
You find someone who sees the strength in you, when you can't find it in yourself.
And with that person, you make it through your worst days.
Some days are easier than others.
Some are full of laughs and smiles, but others are made of sorrow and tears.
But one thing that never changes is the real friends that are there for both kind of days.
03 July 2010
Sometimes, you have to make a mistake more than once, to really learn it.
You have to fight a battle more than once to conquer it.
You have to fall flat on your face over and over before you learn where you stepped wrong.
You're not living if you don't have a long list of trials and errors.
01 July 2010
I won't close off my heart from all the bad things, cause than I'd feel nothing at all.
How could I miss out on all the beauty, just cause of the fear of getting hurt once in a while.
30 June 2010
Sometimes, I wish that I wasn't so sensitive.
That I could just close off my whole heart and hide it all away.
But then I think of all the other people who live that way.
They have to fake their smiles and pretend that it's okay.
I want to live my life without having to hide.
I'll feel hurt and broken, but the pain won't be the only thing I feel.
29 June 2010
The future's what you make it.
Dread it cause it's the scary unknown, but when you look back someday,
you realize you worried for nothing, cause the things you worried about,
they worked out in the long run.
The pain you felt yesterday, just made you stronger today.
28 June 2010
Today's the day I stop running from the past.
It happened, and it's the time that I embrace the pain.
To use it, and make something good come from what was once a bad experience.
You can make yourself hurt a little less, when you put a smile on someone elses face.
And you can hurt a little less, when you don't concentrate on your own troubles
and reach out and help someone else with theirs.
27 June 2010
The situations we go through, they don't change.
There's always going to be struggles. What changes is the way we see it.
If we see as the world picking on just us, we're just going to be bitter.
Me, I don't want my heart to turn stone cold.
Want love to radiate through my smile. Cause for once, my smiles aren't faked.
We all got so much to offer, and I don't want an ounce of pain to go unused.
26 June 2010
The thing is to conquer.
To experience all the things life has to offer.
To love, with all that's in you.
And to feel love in return.
To find happiness in every situation.
Oh and find some amazing people to share it all with along the way.
25 June 2010
You shouldn't judge people for a past they can't change.
For the mistakes I made, I wouldn't change even if there was a time machine to take me back.
The mistakes, well just call them lessons.
You do things wrong so that you can try again.
People complain that they messed it up, the first time.
But then they never try again.
24 June 2010
I think there's something more, life's worth living for
Who knows what could happen.
Do what you do, just keep on laughing
One thing's true, there's always a brand new day
I'm gonna live today like it's my last day.
23 June 2010
These are the things I want to say. Please be proud of me.
I know I've messed up in the past. And will mess up in the future.
Let me make mistakes. Let me be my own person.
When I don't measure up, let me down easy.
I'm not perfect and I won't try to be.
But I'll never make you regret meeting me.
And can guarentee that you'll never forget me.
22 June 2010
You got to remind yourself of all the things going right in your life.
Or you will find yourself always focusing on the bad.
Got breath in your lungs? Got a roof over your head?
Got friends arms to run to? Got food in your stomach?
That's more than some have. You're blessed. We're all blessed.
There's love and hope in this ugly world. You just got to let it in.
21 June 2010
It's hard to see the beauty in ourselves, cause all we see is our flaws,
but others can see us more clearly then we can see ourselves.
Sometimes to know we're beautiful we got to see ourselves through the eyes of those who love us.
20 June 2010
Leave a piece of you behind wherever you go,
whether it be a smile or kind word, it'll last.
You were given your talents use them, don't to just hide them away.
Sharing really is showing you care.
19 June 2010
The more I find myself hurting, the more motivated I find myself to put others first.
To forget myself and to help people. I don't want to see the people I love, in pain.
Especially when there's always something I can do, to put a smile back on their beautiful faces.
14 June 2010
Not every day has it's silver lining.
But that doesn't mean you give in and give up.
There's always a promise of a better day in tomorrow,
you just got to make it till then.
12 June 2010
Putting someone else down, doesn't raise you any higher.
But encouraging them, looking passed their flaws and seeing their beauty,
that raises them up and in the process you get raised up too.
Guess it all goes back to that Golden rule.
If you don't want people sticking their noses up at you, lower your own.
Instead try showing love and compassion, you'll be surprised what happens.
10 June 2010
I want to be unbreakable. To be indestructable. To say that nothing could ever hurt me.
But I will break, and I'll break often. I'll be beautiful in the places I break.
Won't just trip, no I'll fall flat on my face. Words and stares will hurt me.
But that's what being alive means, you feel things. And it's not always good things.
But I'll take the crappy, cause the good, well it's always just around the corner.
09 June 2010
True friends will be in your life just cause they want to be.
Not because they expect anything from you.
But because they see a value in your life.
08 June 2010
The funny thing about your heart, the more love in it, the lighter it feels.
And there's always more room for more love.
There's like no capacity to limit the hope that can fill you up.
06 June 2010
Think, the biggest thing people have trouble with, is accepting themselves.
It's so easy to tell someone else, you're beautiful, you're special.
But we can barely look in the mirror, and tell ourselves,
I'm beautiful, I'm special.
It's not a sign of arrogance, to love yourself.
05 June 2010
Smiles. Happiness. Laughter. Hope. They're all contagious.
Don't be selfish. Share all that you have.
We're supposed to give till it hurts. But the cool thing about sharing your smile,
it won't ever hurt. You'll feel good inside. For a second, you won't concentrate on all the crap in this world. Cause there's so much beauty in a smile shared.
02 June 2010
Sometimes I get so weird, I even freak myself out.
Can't remember the name of the song.
But the melody rings through my head.
Oh Yah. Anything But Ordinary.
A good way to be. Cause when you're extaordinary,
no one forgets you. You make an impact and people notice when you're not around.
Wonder if I'll ever be like that.
01 June 2010
Happiness, it really isn't a destination you work towards. It's a way of living.
It's waking up every morning and holding your head high, letting your talents shine.
It's taking the risk, even the really scary ones, where you don't know what will happen,
but you've put your faith in God to carry you through.
31 May 2010
Feeling pain, isn't wrong. It's one of the things that comes with being alive.
But the laughter, the good memories. Somehow make it worth it in the end.
Giving love and the feeling of it returned. That's what makes us stronger than the hurt.
30 May 2010