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To Give Light You Must Endure the Burn

The Saving, Preserving Side of a Fiery Trial By: White Dove As our truck wound up the dirt path to the watch tower, my daughter and I had an up close encounter with a controlled burn. The fire and smoke may appear intense but only the ground is lit with fire. A controlled burn protects […]

In Case of Sudden Disaster, Grin!

In Case of Sudden Disaster, Grin! By: White Dove “I’m grooming you to grin in the face of disaster,” said Papa God as I made my daily fear-dump in a worn out leather journal. Escaping a cult-church and an abusive husband at the same time had left me isolated, wrestling the growing pack of fear […]

Listening, leaning in, letting the land speak to me on the quest to see beyond….

Quest To See Beyond By: White Dove My eyes are in a state of wonder. The sky today is a deep cerulean blue; the sun is peeking from the towering bull pines and lodge poles, towering more than 50 feet tall. In the distance is a tree-lined mountain peak, usually snow-capped, but in August it’s finally all green. […]

Leap into the Deep

Diving into the Unknown: Is it Safe? By: White Dove I don't trust my own thinking anymore, but I am learning to trust myself. My deeper self, hidden deep in the core of my being. That part of me that exists beyond Time and Space. My soul. In my dreams that part of myself leaps […]

A Reckless Abandonment into the Heart of God

Provision Follows Passion By: White Dove The following is a dream recorded in my journal – and today I am reminded of this dream because many other wounded warriors are also climbing this hill, headed toward a base camp. Many people are having the exact same vision! This place is real and the time is […]

Going Behind the Veil to Write a New Story

Behind the Veil By: White Dove I wake up today between worlds. I'm not the survivor I used to be, because I don't see victory in fighting anymore. Not on the material plane. Not in the legal courtooms. Not in custody battles. The old world needed warriors. The new world needs peacemakers. "Blessed are the […]

Dancing in the Fire

Don't Miss the Chance to Dance in the Fire By: White Dove What if dancing and singing in the midst of your hardship turned the key to unlocking the provision God has stored up for you? Over the years, I have discovered the power of singing and dancing to be true. What if our response to trials […]

Why a Mobile Vision Quest

Where I Am Today By: White Dove I’ve been quiet for a few years, but it feels good to be back in our sacred space again… this place where I have simply shared my very intense, chaotic and intimate story and where I have been honored to hear your stories. To keep it short and […]

Renewal by Design

Renewal by Design By: White Dove Renewal, for me, happens when I enter the unknown. For me, it’s “renewal by design” as I intentionally trade the safe route for the unknown. One early spring-like day, I was on my first “dot-dot-dot” road, which means sometimes there’s a path and sometimes not. The map uses dots to warn you the road will be […]

Be the Heroine of Your Life

Be the Heroine of Your Life By: White Dove It's 2027 and from that future perspective, I write a letter to my younger self in 2018…. Dear Heart, You are a heart scribe, and your words have been released like arrows on the tension of the Lord's bow string. With each story published, souls have been […]

The Sacred Dance of Life

Seeing all of Life as Sacred By: White Dove To Listen to this Story My favorite place in the world is a long, winding dirt road running alongside the Vermillion River in Northwestern Montana. The wilderness is my sacred space, and home to beavers, otters, muskrats, golden eagles, a whole chorus line of bull frogs, […]

Who Do You Say I Am?

"Who Do You Say I Am?" By: White Dove "You become who you behold," God once whispered into my heart. My gaze so often was focused on negative circumstances, opposition, and oppression in my life. I felt inadequate and lowly, like a worm. That didn't help. "What you focus on enlarges and multiplies," God […]

One Day You Will Be Glad for the Pain

Finding Beauty in the Dark Places By: White Dove I remember the day my husband abandoned me alongside the road in a desert, and it felt like a grenade had exploded in my abdomen. The pain cut from my neck to my belly, both physically and emotionally, ripping my gut wide open, even taking my voice away. […]

How to Get Help When You are Completely Isolated and Alone

God's Ways & Means are Far Beyond Human Imagination By: White Dove Your enemy's first strategy is to isolate you. Smear campaigns, gaslighting, or even moving you to a remote location away from family and friends are predictable patterns of an abuser. Sometimes your friends and family are quite near, even in your home, but […]

I See You

Love Never Fails By: White Dove In the series, "Love from Papa" My daughter, I see you. I see you peering into the mist, as if through a fog of twisted notions: Half-truths, false-beliefs, and shattered illusions that block you from seeing your full inheritance. I see you tentatively stepping out of the shadowlands of […]

In the Event of Sudden Disaster, Grin

In the Event of Sudden Disaster, Grin By: White Dove Bone-shaking tremors of impending disaster erupt from the deepest seat of my soul – the place where my controlling beliefs create my circumstances – threatening to throw me into the tumultuous sea. Resisting the stormy undercurrent of my limiting beliefs is something I’ve learned to do only […]

Create Your Own Jail Break

Create Your Own Jail Break By: Susan Deborah Schiller Standing up to Sociopaths – A Collection of Essays Telling your story is important, on many levels. First, for your own freedom. The second is because it lights up the darkness around you. The third is that your story becomes a portal for Heaven to invade the darkness on […]

To Stand in the Shock Waves and Shine

To Stand in the Shock Waves and Shine By: White Dove Photo Source “I’m grooming you to grin in the face of disaster,” I heard Papa God say as I was listening in prayer one day. You see, part of my family legacy is to worry. I tend to worry about things as tenaciously as […]

Become what you Believe

A prayer meditation by White Dove I want to see beyond despair to what is accessible only by faith… In the stillness of pre-dawn moonlight an airplane flies directly overhead in Northwestern Montana. The skies have been filled with aircraft this week spraying forest fires which have grown beyond human control to manage. Home owners race to […]

Handling Conflict in Close Relationships and Church

A Dream Parable on Handling Conflict By: White Dove "In troubled families, abuse, neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden." – Marcia Sirota An area I've not been good at (conflict resolution) appeared in a dream, in a series of parables about how God wants us to handle conflict, separation, and even […]

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