Mission Impossible By: White Dove Sharing a condensed version of a chapter in my memoir… My husband and I were only 40-some years old when life as we had known it ground to a sudden halt. We both lost our jobs and moved to the wilderness following a severe spinal injury. After two years of […]
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Blazing through the Challenges From the "Memoir Mondays" and "Parables" series By: Susan Deborah Schiller Through this chapter of my memoir, I want to hand you four keys that will unlock your destiny, causing you to to blaze through any challenge. In May 2009, I was on the edge of an abyss that nearly engulfed my life. My husband […]
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Feminine Economics By: Susan Deborah Schiller "How do you make your money," people sometimes ask me. In "Innocence Restored" I share all the jobs I once worked. In "Christian Economics 101" I shared how being a job slave, even to Christian employers, has created oppression, for many. I like working hard and I enjoy earning […]
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Walking in Liberty By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Quantum World" "Walking Liberty" is a woman walking in FULL STRIDE toward the sun, a NEW DAY! She carries laurel and oak branches, symbols of a warrior's power and glory. By her outstretched hand, we see her offering this victory and inviting all of us […]
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Innocence Restored: Becoming the Girl I Used to Be By: White Dove Today our activation takes us into all the places of our childhood where our Light shined brightest! This is where you take those photos we’ve been collecting and start to write a little story for each. This is preparation for establishing our identity […]
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You are Altogether Beautiful, My Darling By: Susan Deborah Schiller Dedicated to Wayland – a man who makes the world a better place and me a better person! He didn't pick the perfect wife. No, he picked the broken one… the rejected one, the wrinkled one full of blemishes and spots. He chose her at […]
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Around the Bend By: Susan Deborah Schiller My husband and I have been exploring rivers this year, sometimes in a motorboat and sometimes by canoe. The Tongue River in Eastern Montana is my favorite, because it bends and twists on itself every few hundred feet. For miles and miles you never hear a sound except […]
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A few years ago I was in a webinar led by PJ McClure, who has been dubbed "The Mindset Maven," and he taught us a simple method to discover our passion, called "The Three-Year Old Path to Success". Don't worry, it doesn't take three years to discover your purpose, but you do need […]
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I See You By: Susan Deborah Schiller "Daddy, can God see me under my blanket?" I asked my father one evening as he was tucking me into bed. "I don't know, Susie-Q." replied my dad. "It's time to go to sleep." I was five years old and I remember it seemed very important, even urgent, […]
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Escaping the Traps By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Dream Parables" The following dream was a setup for my entire life. In that, I discovered that we are the directors of our own life stage. When we allow God to direct us, we can change our circumstances for the good. When we follow our own […]
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Seasons of Fire By: Susan Deborah Schiller aka Tender Lily A monster-fire broke out in eastern Montana last summer, destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of forest land, grazing land, and burning down homesteads, too. Devastating! This Spring, the ground is already blanketed with brand new, fresh growth. In the shade of the burnt Ponderosas […]
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Tell your story, color your world. By: Susan McKenzie Photo Credit: Jim Palmer We all want to change the world, but we feel powerless against so much evil. I want to propose we change our perspective. This world is currently run by sociopaths, people who only care about their own agenda. If Jesus is your […]
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When Silence Abuses the Abused By: Susan Schiller Nice people say nice things about other period. I know, because I've been a "nice girl" all my life, as are the majority of Christians. I was raised with the motto: "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all!" Being a nice, […]
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What to do when they keep hurting you, over and over again… By: Kimberly Dimick Editor's Note: Kimberly is someone I know personally, who has personally lived what she teaches. Her voice of authority is empowered by many hours of searching and studying the Scriptures, along with walking with good counselors and a company of […]
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Is it right for a victim to share the blame? From the series, "The Way Home: Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" By: Susan McKenzie "Pinned to the ground, anger boiled up from some deep pit inside of me, erupting in a terrible rage that jerked my child-size knee into a vulnerable place that knocked […]
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The Art of Goofy-Stupid By Susan Deborah Schiller "Do you want to go flying?" asked the Preacher. The Preacher had been sitting in the bandstand, next to the pool I wrote about in, "The Fountain of Youth" at midnight, and he had been listening to me sing. It was the next morning and I […]
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Lessons in the Desert: The Fountain of Youth From the Series, "Escape to Freedom: Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" ~ Part 2 Previous Chapter: Voice of the Moon Flower By: Susan McKenzie A.K.A. Tender Lily Stripping off jeans and jacket to my bathing suit underneath, I quickly let my body slip into the tranquil […]
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But God! By: Murray Lincoln: Misty Hollow Woodcarver I am a Pastor – now retired after 35 years. In my 64th year and 2nd month there wasn’t enough money coming in to pay the salaries of our staff. So they fired me! I felt like crap!!! Moving from a highly respected, ordained minister, trusted by […]
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