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PROMPTLY WRITTEN

The Absence Of Love

Prompt Response — and a search for spiritual survival

I grew up in a dysfunctional family. I can’t say in a dysfunctional home as home was a constantly shifting set of addresses across too many Canadian provinces. I went to more than twenty different schools in five provinces by the time I reached grade twelve.

Was I loved? When I look back, there was no doubt that my French Canadian grandparents loved me in their own way, especially my grandmother. My parents? That is a different story. I was the eldest of nine children. Without disclosing too much information, we were all broken children with two broken parents.

I had early in my life turned to the Church for my spiritual sustenance. Yet, the trust I had in the Church was betrayed by three different priests in three different locations. By the time grade seven arrived, I gave up on the Church and had nothing left to hold onto.

It wasn’t until grade twelve when I discovered philosophy and the existence of Buddhism that become a faint pilot light inside a dark, dank prison in my head and heart. That spark remained in hiding for five years before I dared to risk opening up trust. So began a journey beginning with meditation.

Mediation saved me, especially in the years and decades that followed as the ghosts of the past sought to overwhelm and destroy me. I am well and whole today because of my spiritual journey.

I am new to Promptly Written, but not new to Medium. In looking back over my year and a half of presence, I have obtained my goal of sticking to being present here.

For a few months I tried following a series of prompts for each day that weren’t tied to a publication. From what I can see, that small group has vanished into thin air.

My hope with joining a publication that is focused on survival as a collection of story-tellers and poets who like the challenge of responding to prompts, is a hope that I find a community.

Here’s hoping.

Thank you, ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE for approving my status as a writer for Promptly Written. I have to thank Bella Smith ⭐ as well, for letting me know about the publication.

Now, for you, my readers, here are a few of the stories that I found there which need to be shared:

Bella Smith ⭐