Picked to Survive - Gwendolyn Taylor - Bog

Picked to Survive looks at life's challenges, events, experiences, and victories through the lens of spoken word, poetry, and short story. Picked examines the survivorship of those picked out and picked on and declares them victors. Picked to Survive themes embrace harsh truths while exploring the intensity of pain, loss, grief, shame, heartache, and heartbreak, by exposing provocative relationships, complicated spiritual attachments, and personal traumas. Through the author's poetry, she accounts her personal battle of surviving childhood struggles, bad relationships, losing loved ones, and stage two ovarian cancer; she, in return, encourages her readers to lean into life's happenings, hold their heads up high, and trust that God has a plan for their lives. The author's work shows how believing and trusting God through every circumstance can bring healing into a situation, even as life storms come. Giving up and letting go is not an option; she reminds her readers that, "God sees you; God chooses you, and will lift you up from among all of the withering flowers in the garden and pick you to survive".