Trauma is defined in Webster’s as “a disordered psychic or behavioral state resulting from mental or emotional stress or physical injury”. This threatening shock imposed from external sources upon the human framework has proven repeatedly in this ministry to be the chief suspect which lays the groundwork for addictive behavior in the individual traumatized. If…
“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19. The Lord has brought this verse to me at various points in my life, reminding me that I do not have to be bound…
Jesus is real! He has power to change lives! I know this because He has changed me and healed me of my deepest hurt – the experience of incest – and the sexual confusion that resulted. I pray that this testimony will give hope to others struggling with a similar problem. I was raised in…
Never will I leave you or forsake you. – Hebrews 13:5 I clung to these words as I sought freedom from homosexuality when my lovers would leave me. I finally realized that for 13 years I had tried to fill a spiritual need in an emotional/sexual way, looking to women rather than to my Creator…
Why does it seem so normal for me to feel isolated and out of touch with people around me? The feeling becomes especially intense on those occasions — the parties, the greet-your-neighbor part of church services — the very ones designed to bring people together, that I seem to feel like a square peg in…
Jesus, as Lover of our souls, has ways of wooing even the most impenetrable hearts, abiding faithful even when we deny Him. Often this same, constant love is sharp, painful, and perplexing, but is the same love, and the same God; as the wounds of a friend are faithful so, too, the purifying trial of…
There it is again! That constant, ever-frustrating question was pounding through every speck of my consciousness. Another day goes by and still it remains unanswered. I just don’t understand. How come I can’t be ‘normal’ like my sisters? I have seven sisters and one brother. I’m number eight in the lineup. Never have I heard…