On the discussion of fear — Do you fear throwing caution to the wind? If I had learned earlier in my life to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results I could have ended a lot of suffering in my life. What do I mean? I stayed in a bad marriage forContinue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
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Is God Fair?
If I were sitting in an audience waiting for the play Life is Fair to begin, I’d most likely get up and walk out. Life isn’t fair. Is God? I believe He is. God didn’t hurt me, wicked people did. The Spirit of Religion was sent to kill, steal and destroy. Incest sits squarely inContinue reading “Is God Fair?”
F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)
On the discussion of fear — Do you fear wealth? One definition for wealth is “plentiful supplies of a particular resource. ” I find that growing up with parents who took from me as a child and never gave left a belief in me that I will always have some sorrow and never have quit enough.Continue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
Forgiving Yourself
Coping, changing, unchanging — all of it is messy. Healing is messy. Living can be dangerous. Surviving formidible. I am still standing – after it all. Sometimes I have lived in a lane of peaceful healing, talk is good, forgiveness seems easy. Other times, I am not peaceful, I feel hateful inside, I dispise otherContinue reading “Forgiving Yourself”
F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)
On the discussion of fear — Do you fear pleasure? Coming through childhood tragedy leaves the lessons of happiness, joy, pleasure — the good things in life, at a rare distance. It’s hard to find these things. The easiest of these to experience is probably pleasure. Pleasure is “a feeling of happy satisfaction and enjoyment.”Continue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)
On the discussion of fear — Do you fear folly? The lack of good sense and foolishness scares me. I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. My father was a man of folly. He lacked all good sense and every act he did was full of foolishness. As a result, I amContinue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
Bless, Curse Not
Meeting Jesus at a very young, tender age taught me something: to listen to Him and not to religious ways of a population. I could hate, but I don’t. The reason I try to keep my heart out of the mud is for me and my immediate family. While I walk wholeheartedly in the truthContinue reading “Bless, Curse Not”
F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)
On the discussion of fear — Do you fear GOD? Coming through severe and chronic abuse, you bet I had a deep fear of God. Why wouldn’t I? Did God stop my father from raping me for years and years? Nope. Did God stop my mother from joining in the abuse? Nope? Did God stopContinue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)
On the discussion of fear — Do you fear FEAR itself? If you have ever experienced a panic attack, you do not want to have them. They can be debilitating. When I feel that slight nudge coming over me that a panic attack is right around the corner, I get scared. That is how fearContinue reading “F N’ F (Fear Not Friday)”
Abandoned, But Not Forgotten
If I didn’t honor myself by returning to my past, and bringing vindication where I could, I would have been left abandoned. I would have abandoned myself. I had to force myself to remember me. Everything around me told me to stop seeking, stop turning over rocks. “Learn to live,” they would tell me. Didn’tContinue reading “Abandoned, But Not Forgotten”