I came across this photo someone pinned and the title was, "Abandoned". I couldn't take my eyes off. I have felt a pang from that term for months now but this image is gruesomely vivid in its depiction of a feeling of abandonment. So then I feel the need to thesaurusize my feeling....
Main Entry: abandoned
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: left alone, deserted
Synonyms: alone, cast aside, cast away, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forsaken, given up, godforsaken, jilted, left, left in the cold, left in the lurch, neglected, on the rocks, outcast, passed up, pigeon-holed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, unoccupied, vacant, vacated
Then I feel exposed- much like the drywall and interior structure of those tattered walls. Starring directly at it feels disarming.
Truth for lies:
Isaiah 61:3
3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord,that he may be glorified.
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