by Elisabeth | Jul 6, 2023 | abuse, Church, difficult marriage, heart, judgment
Question: “I have been told over and over by well-meaning Christian friends and church leaders that I need to try harder in my marriage, that I need to do more, that my husband’s infidelity is somehow my fault. How do you deal with fear of rejection or judgment...
by Elisabeth | Jan 5, 2023 | abuse, emotions, healing, heart, judgment, pain, wholeness
For most of my life, I’ve felt just a tad less normal than most people. Less put together. Way needier. A huge disappointment. Less capable of taking care of myself. Not a grown-up. Weak. Lazy. Pretty much a screw-up. As if every day, at the end of my day, I could do...
by Elisabeth | Nov 10, 2022 | 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 | Jul 14, 2020 | emotions, judgment, wholeness
{post originally written Winter 2018} Warning: Some of you are not going to like this post. I can almost hear the comments rolling in now. I am not trying to make anyone feel badly about who they are and I am not trying to start a comparison game. I am simply sharing...
by Elisabeth | Feb 13, 2018 | faith, judgment, pain
I have messed up a lot in my life. Like, a lot. Spiritually, relationally, vocationally, emotionally, maritally, parentally, financially, physically. Like, a lot a lot. I think more than the average human. Or at least so it feels. It feels that way for a couple...
by Elisabeth | Dec 12, 2017 | emotions, faith, healing, heart, judgment, pain, redemption, wholeness
Though I fully believe that God sees sin very differently than we do, and I fully believe we don’t really understand how he sees it, I humanly see sin as in two types. One kind of sin are the little daily things that trip us up – yelling at strangers in traffic,...
