From Frustration to Gentle Patience

Once I graduated from high school and got away from my abusive father, my life didn’t get a lot better. I was not being battered anymore, and that was a plus, but I had a disturbed personality, created by my past, and was making bad choices and nothing was going right in my life. The …

Seeing through God’s eyes transformed my life

When we are children it is so important that we have good role models, so we grow up with a healthy attitude about life and our perception of the world around us is clear and true. When we are abused we grow up with all sorts of incorrect beliefs about life and how to deal …

We all have value at every stage of our life. 

In my previous blog I talked about God’s image and likeness. That’s us. I just heard someone say, there is no expiration date on God’s image. If God is ageless then his image is also ageless. I learned not to listen to or participate in conversations about age and its affects. Don’t listen to or …

With God, nothing is impossible

I was sitting in my office thinking about what to write when my mind drifted back to my past. I don’t really feel a connection to it anymore. It’s like looking at someone else’s life. Even the steps to get where I am today seem like it wasn’t me. With all the healing that has …

How Steadfast Thought Can Change Your Life.

I learned one way to overcome the effects of abuse was to change the way I was thinking. Child abuse garbled my thinking, made me think I was not as good as others. To overcome this, I needed to rethink who I was. I was not bad and deserving of the abuse I got. The …