Purity culture <\/span><\/p>\n Did not teach us how to become women<\/span><\/p>\n It taught us how disappear <\/span><\/p>\n It taught us how to pretend to ignore our ability to feel past our own understanding because no one ever wanted to talk about it <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So now we are talking about it <\/span><\/p>\n I am tired <\/span><\/p>\n Of seeing women walking around feeling as though they are half <\/span><\/p>\n Told that they are half until someone comes and completes them<\/span><\/p>\n But we are complete <\/span><\/p>\n And whole in the only one who has any right to say so <\/span><\/p>\n The very one who made the heavens and the stars <\/span><\/p>\n made these bodies <\/span><\/p>\n These loved and treasured bodies<\/span><\/p>\n Holy and set apart bodies <\/span><\/p>\n Palace dripping in gold and majesty <\/span><\/p>\n these bodies <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meant to Carry life<\/span><\/p>\n But only when the time is right<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Just know <\/span><\/p>\n Shame does not own you <\/span><\/p>\n You are more than any mistake <\/span><\/p>\n You are not walking sin <\/span><\/p>\n You are testimony <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n He is writing something new for us <\/span><\/p>\n No more disappearing <\/span><\/p>\n No more guilt<\/span><\/p>\n We are women<\/span><\/p>\n Built to love <\/span><\/p>\n Made to love <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are temple and home<\/span><\/p>\n So know that not everyone deserves to stay <\/span><\/p>\n Deserves to unpack bags <\/span><\/p>\n Deserves to hold you <\/span><\/p>\n Or know fully your mystery <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ll wait until they do <\/span><\/p>\n Until then I will learn to bridge these two parts of me <\/span><\/p>\n Understand how to love them both <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3\/30 Purity culture Did not teach us how to become women It taught us how disappear It taught us how to pretend to ignore our ability to feel past our own understanding because no one ever wanted to talk about it So now we are talking about it I am tired Of seeing women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,24,25,11,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-art","category-jesus","category-love","category-poetry","category-purity","category-singleness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielleestoria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}