I M Perfect lady

Examples of an Imperfect woman

  • Love and truth are one.

    Martha Beck wrote about honesty check-ins.  Where you set a timer and when the buzzer rings throughout your day, you see if what you are doing is in agreement with your truth. "At your first few honesty check-ins, you may… Continue reading

  • Unwillingness to listen

    "The voice for truth speaks to every person on the planet, every single day, and that voice is as loud as our willingness to listen."  Gandhi   I love this quote! Just as beauty is in the eye of the… Continue reading

  • Refuse to Accept

    Yesterday the act of refusing stuck with me.  How rarely it is actually used, especially by women. We tend to be the peace makers, the fixers, the pleasers and so we shy away from refusals in any form. At least… Continue reading

  • Until you are Perfect!

    Here is what I noticed, it doesn't take perfection and you will still be successful. We all want to wait until. I am not sure who we expect will bring Until to us, but we do have this idea about… Continue reading

  • I will Dare!

    Dare is my word for the year.  I wanted to dare myself to expand my life.  Being brave instead of being safe or maybe comfortable is a better word.  Fear seems to be the starting point to brave, and then… Continue reading

  • Cage of Silence

    Silence is the least effectual response to sexual abuse, and yet the most widely used.   Silence keeps your world operating as if nothing happened.  Silence sits with fear and terror.  Threats, and just the natural ugliness of abuse, demands… Continue reading

  • Be the Final Word

    When speaking out about abuse within the community of the First Apostolic Lutheran Church, I had intuitively knew it wasn't going to be welcome.  But over the past 13 years, it does continually surprise me, how quick they reach the… Continue reading

  • Fragments of Similarity

    What is always curious to me, is when people come upon my blog and my writings about abuse within the First Apostolic Lutheran Church, rarely is there any concern.  More often there is righteous defense for its honor.  Here is… Continue reading

  • Understand or Believe

    We are all born into a narrative; a story about the world around us. Seldom do we question what we have been taught and how we think. The story began before us and will continue through us, or change direction.… Continue reading

  • What will you tell your daughters…

    I listened to this poem on Ted Talks and it's the backbone question "What will you tell your daughters…" that motivated me the most to change.   She is speaking about a year, and I, a lifetime. When something happens in… Continue reading