I don’t want to hold it anymore

I was taught that keeping quiet kept the peace until I realized who's peace was it keeping. The offender is at peace. The people who don't want to deal with it are at peace. And I, in this little body, am holding in all of the war. So, I don't want to hold it anymore."…

Dear Married One

We can answer the call to moderation, to actively considering the other. Or we can take up whatever model of marriage that best serves the passions I've already listed and allows us to approach the sacredness of the other person, to whom we are now bound, with the mentality of usury and with the sole pursuit of self-satisfaction and personal gain. As if God has gifted us this person to satifsy our appetites instead of for the sanctity of our souls.

“She’s too sensitive”

If a person in abuse recovery seems sensitive, it's because they are! And that is a glorious GIFT of discernment and a restoration of their humanity. It is one of the ways God took what was meant for evil and used it for GOOD.

The Feast of the Favored

I was lonely and labelled it ordained. Isolated and considered it holy. But now I sit at the table. There is work to do but I am among the favored.

Recovery of Sorrows

There is a dangerously popular myth that you get it all back...all the broken relationships are healed, all of the wasted years redeemed, when you finally surrender and get clean. I have heard it many times and let me tell you, it is simply not true.

People of Iron or Rust in Disguise

If iron can sharpen iron, then why are we behaving like rust?

Some love for parents everywhere…

Truth is a powerful thing. Sometimes a situation can remain exactly the same, but when it is illuminated by truth, it looks entirely different and we find HOPE. In recovery, I have learned that the only person I can change is myself. Period.