Healing Trauma
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I would love to hear from you! A Jewel: Do you believe God holds all of us accountable or do you see His love like milk toast? If your image of God’s love does not include judgment how can there be ultimate justice? Don’t hear what I am not saying. I did not say God…
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Many struggles met me when I was actively redeeming the parts of my past that needed healing. One of the hardest for me was going back and confronting the people who hurt me. When my mind’s eye was closed and I didn’t see their crimes, it was much easier for me to be around my…
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On the question of fear, ask yourself: Do I fear change? Most people believe that they fear change and I suppose that’s true. What I have learned is that my deepest fear now is staying unchanged. When you think about staying exactly as you are for your the rest of your life, doesn’t that scare you?…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: “An Unintended Quandary” That is a subtitle in the book, “Experience Jesus. Really” by John Eldredge. The paragraph begins: The Christian community in the developed world – particularly in the West — has accidentally fallen…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: “Am I hard on myself? Cracks in concrete are common but often misunderstood. When we see a crack, we automatically assume there’s something wrong. This is not always the case. Some types of cracks are inevitable. Isn’t that true of being…
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The problem with keeping secrets is that they’re alive. We like to think that our secrets can lie quietly in our minds, as inert as dirt, but we’re wrong. Secrets aren’t just our creations…they’re our creatures, beings with wills of their own. They grow. They reproduce, as we form new secrets to support the old…
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To doublethink is mandatory when you are a child who has experienced abuse. Another example of doublethink is thinking on the one hand that you have no hope of escape and on the other hand that it will be better tomorrow. It is, literally, double thinking. Somehow the mind splits so that both realities can…
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Come into my home with me today, join me in my prayer life, and my daily reading. Welcome! A Jewel: Unfettered consistency. I heard the Lord quietly whisper unfettered consistency to me this morning. “What does unfettered mean,” I thought to myself. Unfettered means unrestrained or uninhibited. God himself was telling me that nothing would…
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On the question of fear, ask yourself: Do I live in the fear of what my future holds? Incest leaves a whole so large in the heart of a person seldom do they whisper, “I cannot wait to see what my future holds.” They’d never utter that because hope has usually been robbed from them. Hope…
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On the question of fear, ask yourself: Do I live in the fear of what others think? Fear with a capital “F” stays with survivors of incest. It was a gift given to us at breakfast, served with soup at lunch, and gluttonously given at the dinner table. Fear had to be consumed by us for…