discipline
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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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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: King Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes, a book in the Old Testament, where he seeks to understand the purpose of life through wisdom, pleasure, and toil. The chapter starts off with King Solomon talking to himself: “I said to myself, “Have fun and enjoy…
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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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Oh God, the one who hears the small and voiceless, the one who spins the wind into hymns— do you see the bruises pressed into their silence? Do you touch the aching marrow of those who could not save themselves? The children cry in muffled tones, their voices swallowed whole by shadows. Their hands, once…
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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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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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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Do you know a broken heart can heal? It truly can. I’m living proof. Gem: I believe I am called by God and chosen to be his messenger. It’s in the bible and I believe it. I’m so thankful he sees me,…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Have you ever played the game “would you rather?” Would you rather be in a room full of snakes or spiders? That game! I have played that game with my past. Would I rather be raped as a child or watch the…