What Does Freedom Feel Like to You? By: Susan Deborah Schiller Photo Source In the mini-memoir series * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * My granddaughter experiences freedom when she's climbing rocks, her hands digging in the dirt, up high […]
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Soul Care for Caregivers By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the mini-memoir series A short story from my own memoir…. This evening I want to capture a mental photo of the red cliffs in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Savoring this place of newfound refuge and freedom means I can return to it anytime, in my memories. The setting sun has cast […]
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The Other Side of Normal By: Laura — in the category, "Write to Freedom" Previous Chapter: Laura's Story, Part One Long ago, I met a great woman. Right from the start, I was so impressed by her resilience through pain, her faith, her delicate soul. Her thinking was so profound, that we talked about everything […]
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Redeeming Time By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the "Devotional" Series Where do the minutes, months, and millenia go? Why did our Creator make dark and light? What is the purpose of the sun and the starry night? We measure Time. We measure Space. But infinity has no end. Where am I, […]
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Do Abusers Go to Heaven? By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the series, "Letters from Readers" I am paraphrasing a reader who asks: After we die, will we be reunited with our abusers? In my case, the abusers are my parents… Does this mean I'll have to suffer the abuse for an eternity […]
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Fill these Pages By: Susan Deborah Schiller In "Five Minute Friday" Fill A single word, One long, curvy sentence, Bends and twists into a paragraph. More than a million words, now, Dance between the pages of my diaries. Although the pages of my past will soon be dust, And though this chapter is ending. I will […]
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Sorry, Not Sorry By: Susan Deborah Schiller A couple days ago a young girl was in my home and I heard her on more than one occasion subjugate her own needs and desires to make another person happy. On the surface that appears loving and kind, but I could see her motive originated from fear, not love, because […]
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Photo Credit Life Hurts but You Don't Have to! By: Susan Deborah Schiller Click here to listen instead of read! Disclaimer: Pain has benefits, in alerting us to danger and letting us know when we need to change direction in our lives. The type of pain I'm talking about today is the chronic pain […]
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SHINE By: Susan Deborah Schiller To Listen to this Post, Click Here (7 minutes) To see beyond a lifetime of abuse, is to know that you know that you know He loves you… and that comes from knowing His nature. The adventure begins with resting in the nature of God […]
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My Shadow Life: Single Woman in a Man's World By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, […]
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First Light By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of my abusers are ministers. Friends […]
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Heaven in Our World Today By: Susan Deborah Schiller Create Your World Series Heaven is inside us. It's our inheritance and we've been given the means to bring that piece of heaven into our outward world today! Simple is better than complex. We must become childlike to enter the Kingdom of heaven. What does it […]
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SHINE! By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Diary of a Battered Preacher's Wife" Previous Chapter Next Chapter Introduction: I was once called "the most abused wife" my counselors had ever met. I was married to not one, but two sociopaths. The first marriage lasted 20 years; the second, nearly 10 years. Both of of my abusers are ministers. Friends have […]
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Adultery, Hypocrisy, and Spiritual Deception By: Susan Deborah Schiller Image Credit In the series, "Naked and Unashamed" R-rated. This is reading is for 18 and up. It also carries a trigger warning. Oh the many masks of sociopathy! When you first begin to get free of a pathological love relationship your eyes open to the […]
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