Category: That ONE Book (start at any page)

For me, this year has been about sprints of growth, lightbulb moments, two friendships that deepened, and both through entirely different routes.

It has been about two friends and one professional dropping out of connection, and wondering if they would miss me if I no longer contacted them or be relieved.

It has been about the most important conversation of the past decade taking place, just when I’d given up.

It has been about a realization that I really trust God will keep me alive to do my work.
Or not, and be granted an early exit out of here.
I expect it will feel like a Wednesday afternoon from my childhood, when school finished early.

Yet whether I die at 104 or earlier, I am prepared to do it alone.
Since I figured that one out, the other pieces have been falling into place effortlessly.

I no longer need to think as much, life is easier. Even for the ones who take their distance, I will never force them to deal with me, in this new state.

Being unwilling to water myself down or to sugarcoat things;
No longer investing copious amounts of time to begin with;
Of course that has social consequences.
As it bloody hell should.

But I had not thought about how this works for concepts like allegiance and loyalty.
The idea of going the extra mile and showing up when things get difficult.

With whom do you side, when you no longer supply the social glue of superficiality?
Where does it still gel?

Who can count on my allegiance, and vice versa on whose allegiance can I count?

My answer is I would look for character, moral boundaries, and faith in a higher power.
Which can also be the higher Self.

Before we stand shoulder to shoulder, I need to know theirs will hold.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

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That ONE Book (start at any page)
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That ONE Book is the book I always think I own, until I realize it has not been written yet. So in December 2025 I started writing it myself.
I’m going for writing 365 chapters over the course of 9 years, and then bring it to print.
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The bonds of our families run deep. We share names, histories, opinions, values.
Even if we would not know our biological family, we would still share bonds.

Our blood would bind us forever, even if we grew up in different parts of the world.
DNA is the unbreakable string.

We go through hell if we’re born into the wrong families, and we receive the gift of ingrained belonging when we’re lucky.
We can create chosen families too.

But there is always a bond, as in a bondage. An unfreedom.
A shackle (a “bond”), or a price to be paid.
No relationship, whether work, or with a partner, a friend, a neighbor;
It cannot be free, by definition.

And if you want peace I invite you to start bringing more awareness there.
Ideally, to make a choice of what you are, and are not, willing to pay.
How is your integrity defined and who do you owe your loyalty?

What are your must-haves, your non-negotiables;
What are your goals in life, and the values by which you live?

Peace starts with knowing yourself, and what you stand for.
But it ripples out into the world, by you saying No to the events, the people, the communities and the life paths that undermine your peace;
And, or, would take too much of your resources to defend your peace, compared to what they contribute to your life.

Peace requires not just knowledge of the self, but also the power and the guts to defend it.
It requires for you to stand up for yourself, to think independently.
It has an element of privilege because it requires having your own resources.
To trust you will rebuild.
Or, alternatively, to risk losing them.

The allegiance.
Peace means to know what side you’re on, because it’s the side you’re always on.

Yours.

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

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That ONE Book is the book I always think I own, until I realize it has not been written yet. So in December 2025 I started writing it myself.
I’m going for writing 365 chapters over the course of 9 years, and then bring it to print.
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For years, and usually in December, I get that itch to reboot my life;
Get with the program;
Sit my ass down;
And finally fully commit to that one book, that I always vow I will one day read properly.

Not because I want to honor the author or to be in-the-know. Nor to up my credibility as a whatever, No.

The reason I feel it is so important, is to get my shit together by finally reading this thing cover-to-cover, make it my bible, quote it and to live by it every word, is because I know it will save my life.
And I’m already on my way to my book shelves before I get smacked over the head with the realization that this book does not exist.

Sure, I own books that are close to it, but they are not the same thing as “The Book”.
The Book That Does Not Exist then, apparently.

It is shocking how this book is so vividly present in my imagination, that I keep “returning to it”.
Except there is obviously nothing to return to.

I came to realize this book is in fact mine to write.
In my mind I have called it “The” One Book, referring to that it should be the only one you need.
And I’ve called it “That” One Book, in the brief moments I assumed it was already written by someone else, and all I needed to do was get to the shelves and fetch it.

My dream for this book was that its chapters should be short and with a clear title.
Reading it should be more about the dedicated routine of reading itself, than about the content.

May every chapter represent 5 minutes of your life, spent in sacred solitude.

Maybe you will light a candle or keep a journal on hand. But there won’t be any questions or assignments.

This book should be filled with chapters that bring closure.
And offer peace.

 

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

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