Ann sat gazing at the stain-glass window as she listened to the worship songs being sung. She noticed the varied colored pieces that had been carefully placed to form the intricate design. Her mind wandered to the hopes and dreams…
Category: Abusive Relationships
What’s in Your Grip?
When life is chaotic and out of control, we have a tendency to hold on to areas of our life that are detrimental to our well-being. We hold onto: LABELS Labels become badges of negativity: ugly, fat, dumb, too sensitive,…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: effects of abuse, Self-esteem, shame, Victims
Lord, Are You Still There?
With her dreams in her hand and hope for the future, Pat walked down the long aisle of her church to marry a Christian man who was well liked. As she gazed into his eyes, a moment of doubt flashed…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Domestic Violence, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Self-esteem, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Effects of domestic violence, Freedom, God's love, Safe Place
What Color is Your Elephant?
Wherever I go, I see evidence of God’s most beautiful and unique design in creation in the women I meet. With just words, each woman was designed by God. Actually if you think about it, God was and still is…
Take Heart, Daughter!
20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Self-esteem, Shame Tagged with: effects of abuse, faith, healing, shame
Responding Wisely to a FOOL
After identifying our Fool, we may ask ourselves “Now What!” We can once again turn back to the wisdom of scripture to learn how to respond while heading its warning. Proverbs 24:25: “Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man,…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Domestic Violence, Effects of Abuse, Insights, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Abuser, FOOL, Scripture
Can a FOOL Be an Abuser?
An abuser may be male or female from any culture or from any racial or socio-economic background. They may appear normal, charming, or religious. They may be the usher, the elder, or even the pastor at your church. Abusers come…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Domestic Violence, Insights, Spiritual Direction Tagged with: Abuser, FOOL, Scripture
What Would Jesus Do?
Set aside the church’s self-prescribed “principles and practices”, and search the living Word to find out what Jesus would do. Here are some things Jesus would not do:
New Light on a Common DV Perspective
I have been pondering something. Whenever we educate the church about domestic violence, we often note that there is a high possibility that 1 in 4 women in their congregation have or will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. Let’s…
Posted in Abusive Relationships, Church Response, Domestic Violence, Training Tagged with: Church, Domestic Violence, Education, Perpetrators, Victims
A Plea to Pastors
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