Borders of the Heart
A journey to peace
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My heart races every time I read one of my mother’s poems. As if I am encountering her once again. I hold the pages in my hands, the same ones she wrote on, and I can still recognize her scent...
“What do you know about bad and ugly? I always took good care of you, you never needed anything, you didn’t lack food, shelter, care.”
Now as she speaks to me in the dream, she has a disconcerting look on her face.
“Yes, you were an amazing provider and worked hard for your children, your family. But do you really think that I never felt alone, hurt, mad? That I did not understand what was happening around me?”
Since my mother died, I have had many conversations like this one. Words that slipped our mind or were concealed by fear. Our relationship did not end when she died, instead it improved and deepened. It has taken me years of listening, practicing, praying, forgiving, learning, and loving. I am thankful to God for the courage, the grace, the opportunity to Ride this ride, this journey to my true self and finding my peace.
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There is something beautiful about finding our roots, knowing who we are, and understanding our cultures. It is freeing, it is growth, it is peace.
Borders of the heart, a memoir about being a Latina born in Columbus, Ohio to a Mexican mother and a German-American father, who were divorced when she was just a baby. Raised in a Mexican culture and experiences both in Mexico and in the U.S. She shares her insights into what we carry generationally and how we can embrace our families and be spiritually reconciled. An unbelievable journey that offers peace and understanding.
About the Author
Raised by a single mother in Mexico and the US, she spends much of her life looking to understand and come to terms with the roots of her upbringing with a mom who was a single parent to six children, growing up at the border town of El Paso and Juarez.
Half Latina and Half American she brings her experiences from spiritual retreats over the last fifteen years, her studies as a graduate from the Spiritual Direction Institute of the Cenacle Retreat House and her experience facilitating small circle retreats, and volunteer as a Spiritual Director and Mentor.
Today, through deep spiritual work, and lots of forgiveness and understanding, she writes as a grandma, and feels overjoyed to finally put her life down on paper.