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

Poppies by the seashore at dawn - one of them reaching up above the others and framed by the sun's light

Blinded no more! I choose light

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

I’ve been blinded. But I choose light. As I go with Christ where fear, obligation and guilt forbid, I find hope, love joy. I choose life.

A paved path, shaded by large, leafy trees. I walked this path in 2011, with other Christians who did not see me, or treat me, as a person.

The path to personhood

  • Post published:November 9, 2011
  • Post category:From: What About Women?
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

I am a person. For a long time, though, other people didn't see me as one.

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