by Elisabeth | Nov 12, 2021 | emotions, friendship, healing, heart, judgment, pain, wholeness
I dreamt that I ran into Beth Moore and she suggested we have a slumber party. Obviously. And as we were lounging around in our pink matching jammies (because why not?), she asked me, “If you could have anything in the world right now, what would it be?” My automatic,...
by Elisabeth | Oct 1, 2021 | abuse, friendship, wholeness
tox·ic /ˈtäksik/ poisonous, venomous, dangerous, destructive, harmful, unsafe, injurious tox·ic person someone who is poisonous, venomous, dangerous, destructive, harmful, unsafe, injurious I think that when we think of a toxic person, we tend to think of someone who...
by Elisabeth | Aug 20, 2021 | difficult marriage, divorce, e-course, emotions, friendship, healing, heart, wholeness
Question: How do you stop obsessing about what your ex-husband is doing with his life? How do you detach from someone that you were literally linked to as “one flesh” for years and years? The same way you spit out the elephant you’ve been eating for years…one bite at...
by Elisabeth | Jul 23, 2021 | emotions, friendship, healing, heart, wholeness
When I was in my 20s and 30s, I probably said about 75% of what I was thinking and kept 25% to myself. I was involved in so many conflicts at my church of 19 years that I jokingly said I should get a plaque for most Matthew 18s. I’m not sure why I felt I could say...
by Elisabeth | May 12, 2020 | friendship
When I was a little girl, I really struggled with finding even one friend who was true blue. For one thing, we moved a lot. I was also pigeon-toed which apparently made me a prime candidate for bullying. And, and this one is just weird, I would get myself into...
by Elisabeth | May 5, 2020 | Church, difficult marriage, divorce, friendship, pain, single moms
This post is for anyone who has a friend (or small group member or congregant or neighbor or family member) who is living in a difficult Christian marriage, or who is going through a divorce, or who is a single mom. You want to help her. You want to support her. But...
