My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time
My Gettysburg legacy? A great-great-grandfather who fought there for the Confederacy. And the weightiness of freedom from unhealed wounds.
My Gettysburg legacy? A great-great-grandfather who fought there for the Confederacy. And the weightiness of freedom from unhealed wounds.
How a frazzled cat crash-landing into a treetop helped me see that trauma needs witness. How God reminded me: He does that for us.
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.
It’s agonizing to be bullied – and it can happen to an adult, in the church. People eager to control, plot to sabotage, coerce, shame.
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.
"Come and rest here. Come and lay your burdens down."