I Love Moose Tracks – Preferably Ice Cream! By White Dove, originally published 7/6/12 "Mind over ____" Whatever your current obstacle, put that name in the blank. Today is your day to face that fear, name it, and watch God handle the situation for you! The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. You are One […]
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The Power of Voicing Your Worldview By: White Dove From the "Write to Freedom" Mini Memoir eCourse Life Story Writing Tip: Each of us has a unique perspective, called our worldview, which is helpful to know, in writing our memoirs. Knowing our story comes before writing our story, and giving voice to your particular worldview […]
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Walking through What Seems Dead and Wasted By: White Dove in the series, "Conversations with Daddy" I wanted to change the world. Ever since I was a little child I dreamed of going to foreign lands, solving the problems of world hunger and clean water for at least one community. It didn't seem fair that […]
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By: White Dove The most incredible light and beauty is showcased within a shrowd of darkness. It's like a dance of Light, a grand choreography by a Master Cosmic Artist. In the early nights of my soul quest I slowly walk in deep awe and wonder through the vast canyon as dusk turns to twilight and as twilight deepens into a startlingly […]
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The Ride of Your Life By: White Dove "Saddle up your horses and get ready to ride! It's the ride of your life," my heavenly Father whispered. It was early morning and bitterly cold and I was snuggled under a fuzzy blanket writing in my journal. Until then, I had never been around horses, but […]
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A Quantum Leap By: White Dove Just before first light, I awakened with the thought, “Take a quantum leap!” Startled, I arose from bed and fired up my computer, plugging in “definition quantum leap”. Merriam-Webster defines the term: “An abrupt change, sudden increase, or dramatic advance.“ In November of 2006, I attended a conference where David Van […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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"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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Listening in the Night Watches By: White Dove The story you don't want to write may be sounding an alarm in the night watches. You can't sleep, stumble out of bed, and wonder if you should get something to eat or watch TV. But if you listen in the night watch, the untold story – […]
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Evil's Silent Accomplice By: Deborah White Dove "In my hands I have a piece of piano wire and I'm going to slice off your breasts with it… Next, I'm going to put a bullet in the back of your head and watch your body drop into the rock quarry," threatened my husband, as he emphasized […]
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Tell your story, heal your world. By: White Dove "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, We have come to our real work, And when we no longer know which way to go, We have begun our real journey." – Wendell Berry We have enough victims in this dark world; […]
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By: White Dove Some enemies are meant to return to us as friends. Others are "tares" or "children of the devil" and they have committed themselves to destruction. We cannot align ourselves with them. We cannot forgive them, give them grace, or have any type of fellowship with them. We are not even to pray […]
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I Am Surrounded by a Holy Wall of Fire By: White Dove Do you need protection? Security? Nothing this world offers is as safe as the Fire of Love, and here's how it works out in a practical way…. God once promised me, "I will surround you with a holy wall of fire." As usual, […]
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The Power of Beauty By: White Dove “The world will be saved by beauty.” — Doestoevsky Since I moved out West the majesty of snow-capped mountains, rushing white-water rivers, and the beauty of wild flowers and trees have rejuvenated my weary soul. Beauty has seemingly magical power to cleanse and illuminate the dark places in our […]
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You are not meant to hide in the dark and hope for an escape By: Susan Deborah Schiller The world's system cries through the media, "There's not enough!" Whether it be money, food, or other commodities, the cry reverberates throughout the whole earth. Fathers and mothers begin checking their bank balances, thumbing through their wallets, […]
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