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

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.

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Spirit, power, Elijah and an undivided heart

  • Post published:October 24, 2024
  • Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
  • Post last modified:October 24, 2024

Elijah was human, like us. The spirit and power in his life had everything to do with the God who gave them, and the undivided heart that welcomed them.

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Heartcry of one who overcomes

  • Post published:April 17, 2024
  • Post category:Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

“I so want to be a woman of grace in all this!” she cried, through deep, wrenching sobs. In that holy moment, I heard the heartcry of one who overcomes.

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Earthquakes, trauma – and silences that erase

  • Post published:March 7, 2024
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Any eerie, uneasy silence that minimizes or denies an earthquake - or any other trauma someone is facing - shouts to those willing to hear: Look deeper. Ask, Why?

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Dear traumatized one, I pray you float

  • Post published:September 14, 2023
  • Post category:My Story/Trauma and Grief
  • Post last modified:March 2, 2025

Was there grief in that ark? Yes! Was there tension? Absolutely. And anger. And fear. So many emotions; such great loss. Yet through it all, they were upheld.

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I will change your name

  • Post published:August 13, 2021
  • Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

No longer wounded, outcast, lonely, afraid - your new name shall be Confidence, Joyfulness, Overcoming one, Faithfulness, Friend of God, One who seeks My face.

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Living in two worlds at the same time

  • Post published:February 8, 2021
  • Post category:Times and Seasons
  • Post last modified:May 29, 2025

Jesus died, rose and ascended so we can live in two worlds at the same time - the natural one we see physically, and the supernatural one we see by the Spirit.

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“It is finished” – but how?

  • Post published:April 9, 2020
  • Post category:Knowing and Going with God
  • Post last modified:June 13, 2025

Raised above the heads of those who hated him, those who grieved for him and those who liked the show, how was he able to breathe? Breathing required pushing up on those pierced feet. Breathing required ramming splintered wood into his shredded back. Breathing required an unfathomable commitment to finish.

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Treasure hunting

  • Post published:November 1, 2019
  • Post category:Spirit-to-spirit with God
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

A treasure sought is a treasure treasured. Please do not miss out on the astounding gifts God wants to give you, because you think you’re too busy to pay attention to his inner nudge.

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Life lesson

  • Post published:June 27, 2016
  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post: A life lesson I learned watching my first grandchild be born.

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