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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October is here again! That means that once again we solemnly acknowledge that Domestic Violence and Abuse is real. We affirm that abuse is a sin. We remember that 1 out of 3 women sitting in the pews on Sunday morning have known domestic abuse in some form or other. We grieve for the…
- Abusive Relationships | Coercive Control | Domestic Violence | Effects of Abuse | Insights | Physical Abuse | Trauma
Little Wife Gets A Little Smaller
Little Wife wasn’t always little. She remembered a day when she stood tall, slim and proud in her lacy Victorian wedding dress. She remembered being pretty and funny, clever and smart. She was confident in herself and sure of her plans. All her hopes and dreams were coming true. If she had an idea, Little…
SMALLISH: How Domestic Abuse Shrinks Us
One of the worst things about domestic abuse is how it shrinks us – it makes us feel like we have no value, diminished and unimportant, shriveled and even invisible. Like the Babushka stacking doll, we feel smaller and smaller and smaller. Our once happy faces become sadder and sadder. The controlling nature of…
- Abusive Relationships | Domestic Violence | Effects of Abuse | Insights | Self-esteem | Spiritual Direction
Heart Piercing Wounds
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 19-20 NIV All of us have from time to time said things that we later regret. Emotions run high and anger comes to the surface. There are,…
Financial Safety
Once we have established our own household it is necessary to prioritize and organize our thoughts around our finances, especially if we did not have the responsibility for them in the past. If we have children, our thoughts and actions usually revolve around them and their activities and everything else is put behind them. We…
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.” 22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take heart, daughter,” he said, “your faith has healed…
