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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…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: The WOKE liberal agenda with its progressive ideaology is part of a continuing grooming and a trap for those of us that came through childhood sexual abuse. LGBTQQIP2SA: any combination of letters attempting to represent all the identities in the queer community,…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Suffering and loss have been an intimate companion to me. I try to ignore it but the truth is it remains. My childhood brought destruction daily. When I married, the loss of those 18 years haunts my soul. It’s what was taken…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: Forgiving what you cannot forget was a Sunday message I heard last week. While the thought of God is for me to release myself from those that hurt me, it is never His thoughts to keep me tethered to them. It is…
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I would love to hear from you! Sharing Saturday with you. A Jewel: I’m hard pressed to understand why the struggle is so hard to leave people who abuse us. Those that never ask for forgiveness and would continue to keep us in a a prison of denial. It’s not good for us. God’s love…