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Autumn always brings out the poet in me and the writer shows up even more. I felt nostalgia wash over me today for all that occurred in the beautiful Summer of 2019. My pal said, "we're just a few days out of the Summer season don't start getting sentimental." "Too late," I replied. They label me as expressive. Eh, I've been called worse. Happy Autumn, sweet friends!

This is my story and I'm sticking to it ❤ Honestly, full-on truth; God has proven this to me time and time again.  ❤He's purposed my own experience with various forms of abuse/misuse to reach those who are wounded by abusive authority figures and leadership  (in friendships, in families, in churches, in marriage and in their career path).  ❤He's purposed my experiences with passive leadership who choose to not interrupt abuse and highlighted to me the importance of speaking up for the weak and down-trodden.  ❤He's purposed my history with self-loathing and used it as an ongoing example of choosing to heal and live in freedom.  And in all of this, He has taught me grace toward the abusers and misusers in my life, by giving me the sight to see how hurt and wounded they are/have been. The saying goes, "Hurt people, hurt people." So let it also be true, "Healed people, offer healing to people."  This whole life, that God has given ...

Hi friends! As usual, I'm posting from a transparent place about a recent personal experience with being reminded of a deep truth that I was forced to rediscover. And that is... WORDS MATTER To use our words carefully and wisely can sometimes be a struggle because of the internal battle(s) that we all seem to have. There's the battle between what we, as Christians, hope to desire (based on an eternal perspective) and what we sometimes actually desire (based on a temporal, carnal perspective). There's the battle between wanting to accommodate our feelings at the moment and wanted to take care of the hearts around us. These battles wage day in day out, and moment to moment; because of that, our words are often geared toward soothing a crisis of feeling, releasing a chaotic emotion, or some other need for relief or maybe even just a distraction from the mundane. Unfortunately, we are often short-sighted in the realization that words create - they create for the speaker a...