longing
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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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I carry in my heart the scars of my yesteryears. I cannot simply remove them. That’s not how this life works. While God has redeemed so much of the past, I carry the burden of the years I’ve lived. We all do. Healing and restoration does not mean that the experience leaves our minds, our…
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Nothing was going to bring my virginity back. The murdered women could not be raised from the dead. What then did I seek? What could bring justice to any of this? In my 20s I began to read the bible and search for a God who was a different God than my father had taught…
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Reflection ~ what a great way to start a week. Christianity to me has meant that when I was too weak to stand, I fell at the feet of Jesus. Faith to me means when I am out of options, and maybe before I’m completely done trying, I let go and give it to God.…
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Oh, reflection, my soul longs for you. Why don’t we talk more about incest in our socieites at large? Trauma that stays with the person a life time and can threaten their very existence. Every nine minutes a child is abused in the US and that number excludes the global problem. We should be talking…