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Healing from toxic church – seeking what is precious, and truly God

Old black-and-white photo of a Piper PT-1 airplane, sitting on the ground, with a neighborhood set among mountains in the background

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.

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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.

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Print from 1882: A farmer with horse and wooden plow, is tilling a field - and apparently without knowing it, has turned up a human skull.

Isn’t it time to leave the past behind?

  • Post published:February 8, 2025
  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:May 23, 2025

God wants to lift from our shoulders staggering burdens that generations have needlessly carried. He wants to show us the way to send away the past that binds.

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My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time

  • Post published:July 2, 2013
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:February 8, 2025

In a very real way, I was there when my great-great-grandfather Lorenzo Whitaker survived the Civil War, and more specifically, the Battle of Gettysburg.

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I’ll rest

  • Post published:October 27, 2012
  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

"Come and rest here. Come and lay your burdens down."

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