Disordered parts don’t define us

I struggled with a chemical imbalance that diagnosed me with depression that manifested as an impending doom cloud each day I opened my eyes for over three decades. That type of imbalance trailed throughout many of the psycho-somatic ailments that Doctors believed were my lot in life, but they weren't. Nobody could offer the anecdote …

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Innocent

We are not our sin. We are not our mistakes. We do not have to re-live physical ailments that remind us of a memory in the past. I was 32 when my memories came back to me about sexual abuse starting when I was 3 years old. The emotional pain lingered for years and destroyed …

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Gluten or Candida Overgrowth?

Many years have passed since my days of dealing with IBS, so I had some concerns when familiar symptoms started manifesting.  As far back as I could remember, I had frequent bouts of abdominal pain associated with either constipation or diarrhea.  I was the child who routinely went to the nurse every morning with stomach …

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Remembering

Remembering It is so much easier for me to recognize Daddy’s goodness today than it was this time last year.  I have always professed His goodness, but done it with the motive of correction.  If someone lacked the ability to grasp my understanding of God being good, and satan being bad, then I would walk …

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