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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: If you were so close to a forest fire that you could feel its heat, would you evacuate? I was sitting in the grass with my brother and a child. We were watching a fire across the street. The fire…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: If I were not loved by God, I wouldn’t have made it through this life. How do I know God is real? Because I first new evil. Darkness hovered in every corner of our house when I was young. If darkness were…
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Motherhood is a battlefield where power, healing, and growth collide—a place where fear and faith wrestle in the quiet hours, and brokenness becomes the soil where love takes root. I have walked through fire, burned down to ash by hands that claimed love but knew only control. I have been shattered and shaped, and I…
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What are you carrying in your hands today? Is it strife, injustice — unworthiness? It’s an interesting question. What we carry in our hands may be a direct result of what is happening in our hearts. If our hearts are confused and full of chaos, I suppose our life will show the fruits of that.…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: “Teach me how to talk,” a friend honestly asked me on day. She shared that she struggled knowing how. Now, this was a friend that I spent hours talking to but I knew exactly what she meant. She wanted to speak in…
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On the question of fear: Does anxiety come to you when you think of fear? If you can hear what I am saying with this, listen up. The crime of incest usually starts when children are very young. They are groomed early and often. This ensures they won’t be sharing their story with anyone and…
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Times of reflection are the best way to start a week. Ask yourself this question: How far have you come in your own personal healing journey? The pilgrimage of healing is a ship that sails through the course of this life. Not until we reach the Kingdom of Heaven will our healing be complete. I…
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I have endured too much abuse at the hands of others because of my dissociative behaviors. Let me explain. “Dissociation means simultaneously knowing and not knowing.” Body keeps the score, VAN der kolk, m.d., page 121 You read that right. “When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from…
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There are days when I wake up feeling like a house that has been lived in by too many ghosts. The past hums in my bones, a low vibration of old hands, old voices, old wounds that never quite closed. Trauma isn’t just a memory—it is a language the body speaks when the mouth cannot.…
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Daughter, little lamb, soft as dawnlight— the world is a hungry thing, its hands are thieves, its tongue dripping honey, laced with thorns. Once, you were nothing but lullabies and milky breath, your body a temple of baby fat and unbruised trust. Now the wolves call you darling, the merchants weigh your worth in flesh.…