Key Truths

The dream – and awakening 50 years later

Post published:June 15, 2025
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:June 15, 2025

For 50 years I didn’t know: My dream at age 3 profoundly explained and influenced the trauma in my life. Then, I began awakening to the key I’d held all along.

When waiting is writhing and silence groans

Post published:June 13, 2025
Post category:Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:June 14, 2025

When we find ourselves writhing and groaning in the face of evil and grief, God is in it, giving us grace to “labor” in a way that births deliverance and life.

Bullying/mobbing: Beige wooden peg "people" grouped on dark concrete so that it appears a whole crowd is against one

Sabotage, coerce, shame: Bullying in the church

Post published:June 4, 2025
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:June 8, 2025

It’s agonizing to be bullied – and it can happen to an adult, in the church. Supposedly godly people, seeking to control, plot to sabotage, coerce, shame.

Toxic stew: A black smoking cauldron hangs over a tended fire.

Resentment and its victims: Hate without cause

Post published:May 28, 2025
Post category:Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:May 28, 2025

Resentment may seem harmless. It may seem justified. Yet it is toxic and often misdirected. Whether it’s simmering within you or aimed at you, it’s hurting you.

A suspension bridge spans a canyon between a tall cliff and a much taller one. From the taller cliff, we see tiny people in the distance, setting out single file to pass over the bridge that will take them to a much higher place.

Our Passover: Knowing and going with Christ

Post published:May 11, 2025
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

From its start, Passover has met God’s people at the intersection of pain and gain, and urged, “Go with God. He is so worth it.” A story of Christ our Passover.

White dove in a golden cage against a black background. The dove holds an olive branch in its beak.

Love story, fairy-tale life? Caged bird singing? Esther

Post published:April 11, 2025
Post category:From: The Esther Blessing Living Life
Post last modified:April 23, 2025

Have we seen Queen Esther as a beloved wife, living a fairy-tale life? If so, we’ve missed the abuse in her story and a surprising key to reigning in life.

Bucking the system: Pencils neatly lined up on a paper point to a row of empty check-boxes. But one red-lead pencil points the other way, to a red outline of a heart.

Bucking the system: Shunning, submission, Jesus

Post published:April 2, 2025
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:June 8, 2025

Jesus grew up in a religious system God had instigated, and people had hijacked to use for their own ends. Jesus’ life shows us when and how to buck the system.

Plantation house parlor, still richly decorated in antebellum style when photo was taken in 2021.

Sisters uncover cruelty hidden in plain sight

Post published:March 23, 2025
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:May 28, 2025

Decades ago, Sarah and Angelina Grimké told the truth with compassion and courage. Still today, the sisters can help us uncover cruelty hidden in plain sight.

Sunset over Sea of Galilee, October 2009

Woman walking on the water, you are ordained

Post published:March 12, 2025
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church My Story
Post last modified:May 19, 2025

When asked if I wanted to be ordained, I waited on the Lord. I’m still in awe! And I can encourage you: When he calls you to walk on the water to meet him – GO!

Pink flower with long green stem, fallen, bruised, petals closed, lying on strange green soil

People of God, befriend the forsaken

Post published:March 8, 2025
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:June 8, 2025

I’d seen it in Scripture, yet had not seen: How strongly God commits himself to defend the forsaken. How strongly he urges his people to befriend the forsaken.