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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Abusers lie but we tend to believe their stories anyway. Why? Why are we so reticent to believe that people will calculate a story to manipulate us. We tend to look for the good in people denying the counterfeit parts we see.…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: I’m reading through the book of Isaiah right now. It’s a bit of a hard read but I understand fully what Isaiah was saying in his time. He was a “piercing poet, who understood the two-sided nature of God’s character; mercy and…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: I was raped by my father before I turned four and it continued until I left his house at the tender age of 18. I don’t shy away from that story anymore. I was his victim, tortured for decades. Why change that…
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Suicide and death are such a common theme among incest survivors. You know why? It’s all murder, that’s why. I only saw my father a handful of times after that. He had chosen deceit and the battle between us was on. About six months before this illness, I’d dreamt that my father was milling about…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Dillusional v. Deceived – let’s unpack that for a minute. The definition of dillusional is “a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.” The definition of deceived is “cause someone to…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Shamed, broken and alone — that’s how I entered my first marriage at 18 years old. Young and friegthened, scared and vulnerable. I had no one with me when I left my family. They’d marred me beyond recognition and I didn’t really…
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A field of lilies in full bloom doesn’t know the process of growth, how it got into that field, or where the sun comes from. It just accepts how God created it and stands showing its beauty. Wisdom. Humans are much more complicated. We ask questions, poke holes in creation and bring along our theories.…
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Crickets chirp or sing for courtship or aggression. Doesn’t that sound distinctly familiar? Somewhat like abusers. They court you one minute and the next they are aggressive. Leaving abusers causes confusion in our minds. It shouldn’t but it often does. We believe they are singing only one song — a song of love or courtship.…