Based in the desert of West Texas, Amara Bratcher is a full-time student minister who also writes, takes pictures and volunteers with at-risk children. She has written a book entitled The Bridge That Love Built for adopted kids who have gaps in the early years of their lives. She likes her coffee French Pressed and wears her hair curly 365 days a year. 

Buried

Amara Bratcher

Where had it come from?
Why hadn’t I seen it?
What was it doing in the back of the closet?

The contents were mummified in tissue paper and reverently laid in repose.

Until my hand disrupted that repose and pulled it forward into the light.

Into the light.
Exposed.
Remembered.

There are things that we push to the back because we do not want to be reminded that they exist.

The memory is real, not a nightmare.

Dirty Job

Gold Shoes