adulthood

Battered boundaries: Closeup of wooden, split-log fence, compromised, leaning, with two small clusters of tiny lavender flowers growing up between the boards.

Case of the battered boundaries

Post published:August 6, 2021
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church My Story
Post last modified:August 1, 2024

Why, in midlife, did I suddenly find my boundaries battered and my adulthood denied?

Beige rope, loosely looped into the shape of a heart - on boards of weathered wood against a dark green background

The forgotten key: Loving one-anothering

Post published:July 31, 2021
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:December 18, 2024

Our Lord is building his church. He told us what is key. “Love one another,” he said. When that is happening, all that embodies Christ’s love flows both ways.

Church service 1901: Men and women sit on wooden benches in their Sunday finest, facing each other from opposite sides of the preacher, who stands behind a massive pulpit on a high platform above them all.

Adulthood and the church that rejects it

Post published:July 23, 2021
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:August 1, 2024

Frustrated, exhausted, I realized: I would never count as an adult in my church system. Free at last, I’m embracing the adulthood God works in his own

God who inspires the prophets

Post published:September 26, 2013
Post category:Knowing and Going with God
Post last modified:March 11, 2024

“The angel said to me, ‘These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must…