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Key Truths for seeking hearts

Seeing and healing from what is toxic in the church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

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Masters of misdirection and mesmerizing fog

  • Post published: October 16, 2025
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing/Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified: December 6, 2025

People like King Ahab spend their lives using and abusing others, to get what they want. They also mesmerize and misdirect us, so we won’t see them as they are.

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The dream – and awakening 50 years later

  • Post published: June 15, 2025
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified: April 24, 2026

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.

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Women, false responsibility and the church

  • Post published: January 11, 2025
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified: September 28, 2026

A distorted view of “women’s responsibility” is deeply embedded in the church. Here’s what people may expect of us – but God does not.

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This “good Christian girl” is a woman now

  • Post published: August 1, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church/My Story
  • Post last modified: September 3, 2026

Grown, yet unaware my view of women was far more Confederate than biblical, I was a good Christian girl. This girl is a woman now, a woman going with God.

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O say, can you see … what I did not?

  • Post published: July 11, 2024
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified: October 27, 2026

Evil can deceive us far more subtly and far more thoroughly than we have believed possible. O say, can you see … what I did not?

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