childhood
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Impeccable Word
Not grasping what is meant by the term Truth, is the key to all of life. What does it mean if you can't grasp or know truth? How are you taught this or perhaps not taught this? Is there a… Continue reading
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Put a Happy Face on Hurt
I had a saying that sat on my stove for years on a trivet, "Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall inherit the Earth." I was a young unmarried girl at the time I had gotten this as a gift,… Continue reading
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Holding it all Inside.
I didn't catch the speakers name, but heard her on Sirius radio say, "trauma is experienced in the right brain and stays there until you express it. The left brain categorizes our experiences and it needs to be expressed or… Continue reading
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Whatever Reality Serves.
My brother's blog (www.messyguru.typepad.com ) shows the switching characters that a mother often displays when faced with truths that directly oppose her life. Her life and dream and ideals. I have somehow had this wrong. I had presumed that my… Continue reading
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Coming From Whence We Came…
Our book club is reading the book, "leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck…this section was particularly affirming to me when I first read her book about five years ago. She recounts how her life began to make sense after getting… Continue reading
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Unconditionally loving the Abuser.
As human beings we are used to riding along and adjusting to change, but we are not used to being “the change you want to see in your world” as Gandhi put it. We want change and we want it… Continue reading
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A Pattern without Abuse.
“Two wrongs don’t make it right…” came to mind yesterday and I can see clearly how a child gets so lost after being abused, how the negative energies keep piling up. ‘Good’ folks who are unaware of what their actions… Continue reading
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We either hide your sins or own our lives.
The main belief or what keeps the faith going is this one paragraph that Jim Torola wrote about in his Post, “Why no Movement.” “Or the FALC trump card, "it was forgiven in Jesus' Name and Precious Blood, thrown into… Continue reading
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Normal Results.
“What is your motive for Telling…” is a phrase that lends it self to much debate. The simple fact that a child is then put in a position of feeling ‘bad’ for squealing stops many from coming forth. No one… Continue reading
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Who is Behaving Badly?
What stayed with me is how off balance the justice system is where the victims get a ‘court appointed attorney’ called prosecutor and the perpetrators get the option to pay for a high powered expensive, save your ass lawyer. How… Continue reading