Can’t hate in the name of love

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Svengali wears a cowboy hat 2/22

Something happens on the inside when you know you're walking on shaky ground but don't necessarily have to be. It's that lump in your throat and the heat that surfaces on your chest when you lie to yourself and proceed in a relationship that is screaming "caution". Nothing about the guy is transparent or quantifiable …

Fitness model exercises wholeness steps

To walk out a life of wholeness, one would first have to know what one wants out of life.  Some people don't want to know why they suffer because they are afraid of uncovering something big that would stir up even more chaos.  I have never been such a person, usually I use chaos as …

Hey Jealousy

It seems there are no shortages of mean people on this earth.  I always say mean people have been treated badly by somebody else before you came along, so don't take it personally. However, that is easier said than done, especially when that mean someone is in a position of authority or they have some …

Social media made me do it

I think people give social media too much credit for determining #gender and #eating habits because the #truth of the matter is that confusion concerning them always begins in the home. If there is no #allowance for #expression than a child turns inward. If there is sexual abuse, #identity is breeched and always a precursor …

The time to tell

From Garris Elkins The Shifting Baseline Syndrome We are living in a time where many are believing and accepting various forms of deception as truth. This acceptance has occurred over time unnoticed and unchallenged. There is a definition that describes this descent into error. In the mid-nineties, a marine biologist named Dr. Daniel Pauly used …

Lives spared from speed

I was going to skip my hyperbaric visit since it is a 4 hr ordeal but I thought I would give it one last try, and indeed it will be. The traffic is so scary, talk about changing lanes, but one hour each way dodging semi-trucks is more stress on my body that I’m trying …

Baptismal Birthings

They had a call for a baptism and it was in that moment where I realized I had to lay down everything that I’ve been holding onto, all that I gripped with my fists because I didn’t believe that God could offer me something better in exchange for. I had been dancing during worship for …

Command the Miracle

When unbelief stifles expectation, the only way to bring forth the miraculous, is to command it. This testimony of an El Salvador missions trip shares the breaking out of healing after a man who had a humped back, straighten, and he started walking, running actually. The place was lit with expectancy and our youth group …

The Covering

The idea to create a quick read from the parent to a child evolved after three years of working with teens through IFS Therapy, who were quieted through control, religion or other persuasions from a role model. In hopes that a light would turn-on inside the adult, I longed to bring illumination to teaching and …

Healing the Internal Chronic Parts

I left the Internal medicine practice in tears and didn't realize someone in the parking lot could hear me crying until she called out to ask if I was okay. A woman of sweet countenance approached me and just hugged me as I held my paperwork form the doc's office close to my chest and …

turbulent testimony

If I didn’t even trust Daddy with my life anymore, how could I ever trust the people He places in it?  My intimacy with Daddy had almost come to a standstill and it was affecting the closest person to me, my boyfriend. I wanted him to help me with life instead of the One who …

Dear Younger me

Dear Younger Me, As I address those little eyes which have cried and cried and cried, my right hand covers my heart for connection to your compassionate expression.  Made to believe that your sensitivity was a weakness, that your hypervigilance was unnecessary, or that your voice screeched in the heads of those around you; you …

Why a village?

The statement "It takes a village", has hardly been spoken from any role-models that are trustworthy, they may have political platforms and promote initiatives that start off strong, but integrity isn't something found behind the slogans from opportunists who spend other people's money on half-witted bail outs.  I'm sure in the beginning, many efforts to …