I will never forget the day, years ago, when I finally let myself admit our ‘church’ had eroded into a cult with all the control and manipulation that word implies. It is the day when I turned to my husband and said, “We have to get out of there.” Scott looked back at me. “I […]

I just stepped off the stage from sharing, for the first time, my story of recovery from the abuse and effects of a cult. I had never been this honest with this many people and I felt very exposed. I was glad it was over. After, while in a restroom stall, I heard two women […]

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who knew she was born to fly. She felt the wind calling her, lifting her heart and soul but couldn’t get her feet off the ground. One day she whispered to her mother as she stood tall in the grass and spread her arms into the […]

Once upon a time, there was a girl who dreamed someday she would fly. She turned her face into the wind and let her thoughts drift. She felt her heart lift up into the sky in spite of her Earth-bound body. One day, with her eyes closed, feeling the sun and the wind, she said […]

Shame shows up in our lives in surprising ways. It has an agenda all its own and doesn’t mind changing its tactics to serve its purpose. Shame aims to keep you fearful, living a small life, and stifling the gifts you have to offer the world. Will we ever be fully rid of shame? I […]

I pray you take your place knowing it is anywhere and everywhere God calls you. I pray you know your calling until your power becomes unshakeable, irrevocable and secure; that you never shrink from the fierceness and strength of it, knowing what God starts, he always finishes. I pray the needs of the broken and […]

If you are feeling powerless over your emotions, that feeling may be a gift pointing out something you need to address. Feelings are a barometer. They don’t report the weather but report what is happening in your atmosphere, the climate inside of you. You have the power to choose what to think, how to feel and […]

  Time stopped as 6-month-old Libby and I stared at each other. I looked into this little face and saw myself looking back at me. I wonder if she sensed something too because after that I kept catching her staring at me. Every time I did, I felt like I was being looked at from […]

“Do you believe I’m that good?” I heard God whisper the question to my heart. If I had been asked this question by anyone else, I would have had the “right” answer. My perfect answer would have been followed up with a flood of caveats and clarifications until it was barely recognizable. I would have disguised […]

As I waited in the exam room before my surgery I paced the tiny tiled floor and sang, You’re a Good, Good Father It’s who you are, It’s who you are, It’s who you are and I’m loved by you It’s who I am, It’s who I am, It’s who I am As I was […]