Where is your safe place? Where {or to whom} do you turn when you are hurting? That’s what we’re talking about this week on our online study, When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference. We’re slowly bringing our pain into focus through the lens of community, […]
For the next ten weeks, we are walking through the book When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make A Difference in our online book study. And each Thursday, we will gather here to share our voices around that week’s topic, this week our first gathering. We’d love to have you […]
Those times when life’s not working out like we thought it should—it creates a unique stress, no? A twisting of the heart and mind that holds a false sense of power over our choices. A crushing loss of hope that comes when we feel this hard may never end, the one that drives us […]
It’s finally here! Our time to connect and grow through our book study, When A Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life’s Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference. Grab your book, your Bible {if you have one}, your markers, and find a quiet corner where you can plug in with us online. I’m so […]
How do you act, what do you say, when you feel nothing? When the hurts have ripped carmine-red, when the bad news and lame excuses echo empty, but the tears have dried? Whoever said words don’t hurt, they lied. There is a pain that worms its way into our hearts and relationships, our very lives, everything […]
Sometimes thoughts get jumbled in my mind and I say things that mean just the opposite of what I’m thinking. Does this ever happen to you? I’ll be doing a normal task and out of nowhere a thought or word spoken triggers a memory from long ago and all I can focus on is the […]
I have my Christmas tree up. I thought that might be mine and my grand-daughter Lacey Jane’s lil secret until I was blessed with a visit from Sarah Knepper and her beautiful family, but even then I swore Sarah to secrecy because I couldn’t fathom admitting that I had my Christmas tree up in October. […]
“It’s time—hurry up! Be quiet. Stay out of sight, or else.” Carol’s mother forced her and her siblings beneath two single beds. It was stifling hot, humid, and hard to breathe—an awful place to be stuck on a sunny afternoon. Tucked in the attic, the children didn’t dare allow any sound to escape. That upper […]
There’s something that happens when brokenness stains a woman’s spirit. Have you, or someone you know, ever fallen silent? Felt unable to express yourself because you were misunderstood, attacked, or criticized in some way? Have you ever hurt so badly you felt the pain might never go away? Worse, have you felt this sharp pull to […]
Suffering and sorrow are inevitable parts of life. Loved ones die. Dreams crumble. We lose things that were once important to us. The happily-ever-after life we dreamed of is often a far cry from the reality we live. How we respond to loss and change determines what happens to our hearts. It also determines if […]