by Elisabeth | Jul 1, 2022 | abuse, emotions, healing, pain
Some people have hurt me in my life. Some long ago. Some recent. Some repeated. Some just once. Here’s what I recently wrote in my journal: Holy Spirit, please soften my heart towards — and — and —. I am carrying anger, sadness and fear towards each...
by Elisabeth | Jun 24, 2022 | abuse, emotions, faith, friendship, healing, heart, pain, wholeness
Several years ago, I was walking along the beach with someone I loved deeply. And she said to me, quietly, I have a secret. Okay, I said. I want to tell you but I’m not sure I should, she said. Okay, I said. We were both quiet. Then I said, nothing you tell me can...
by Elisabeth | Jun 3, 2022 | healing, heart, wholeness
We have all made messes in our lives. Some small, some life-changing. And we have all said to ourselves from time to time, what have I done? Now, that sentence has its proper place. When asked with gentleness, and in tandem with the Holy Spirit, and not dwelled on for...
by Elisabeth | Feb 25, 2022 | dating, divorce, healing, wholeness
When I wrote about sex and the single Christian girl, I cringed the entire time I wrote it. But I look back now and have to laugh a little bit because (and I admitted this then) it’s super easy to talk about something when it’s only a theory. Because I wrote it when I...
by Elisabeth | Feb 11, 2022 | divorce, healing, 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...
by Elisabeth | Jan 21, 2022 | abuse, difficult marriage, healing, pain, wholeness
I think most people think of abused women as mousy, as cowards, with black eyes hidden under thick make-up, as – as harsh as this sounds – fools or, worse yet, just plain idiots. Because who would willingly stay in an abusive marriage? What kind of woman wouldn’t be...