The Bell of Truth Tolls By: Kimberly Dimick Today, Kimberly addresses the common advice victims are told: "To forgive and move on." Too often we are taught to give "easy grace," not realizing the spiritual danger we put our offender in. Also, easy grace allows the offender to continue abusing. TRUE FORGIVENESS does […]
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Five Minute Friday: TRY In training with a business mentor, Dani Johnson, I was continually reminded that there is no "try" in success. Having the attitude, "I'm going to give it a try," is a recipe for failure. In making a quantum leap, God's been showing me that the recipe for success is seeing by faith, […]
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Reclaiming Your Joy By: Susan Deborah Schiller A sure clue that your identity has been stolen is when you lose your joy in life. You end up in the routine of chores and responsibilies but your own needs are often neglected. You support others while letting your own dreams die. For years, I woke up […]
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Never Alone By: Susan Deborah Schiller A little chapter in my mini-memoir, where I learned that God is in the daily details of our lives. Jumping into my boots I launch myself into the icy Wyoming wind to break ice on the troughs. It's one of those times when I nearly persuade myself that I am alone. I call myself, "The […]
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Crossing Over: The Last Year of My Life By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the "Write to Freedom" Mini Memoir eCourse Earlier this year, I felt God showing me that it's a year for a quantum leap, a time to really BELIEVE in what He's been teaching me all my life. I […]
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God's Laughter By: Susan Deborah Schiller God is the kindest, most joyful, fun-loving, totally unpredictable, wild and most awesome Person ever! It's the most life-changing discovery in my life! I have been discovering God's nature everywhere… in the outdoors, in stories, in books, in movies, in the Bible, and in my dreams… but until I […]
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Sweet one, let us hear your story. Let us wrap you in Love with skin. There's a sacred love story unfolding among the women who surround me. At first, it may seem shocking. Instead of religious zeal, shrugged on like a cloak, they choose to run naked, wild and free. These sisters are writers who […]
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The Lone Rancher Lessons By: Susan Schiller I looked out the window and said to myself, "Sue, you've got to get those horses out of the pasture and into the corral." My husband usually took care of that. He just saddled up and rounded those horses right into the corral. I was just in the […]
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Does A Sociopath Have A Heart By: Susan Deborah Schiller From the series, "Understanding Sociopaths & Abuse Tactics" A reader asked me, "does a sociopath have a heart"? In other words, is there ANY HOPE at all that they might change and become "real". I do know of extremely abusive people, even criminals, who have completely […]
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Hay! Follow Me! By: Susan Deborah Schiller The wisest king, past, present, and future, was King Solomon and he used to study the animals to gain wisdom. I figured I would follow his lead. I spotted the elk herd in my backyard from my living room window, zooming in with my camera lens. How did they know […]
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The King's Bride By: Susan Deborah Schiller Many women, much like holocaust survivors, ask me the same question, after having lost everything to their absuer: What is ahead of us as we are so close to retirement? We are widows, having lost both husbands and church. We fell through the cracks of institutional Christianity. We are […]
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How Does God View Women? By: Susan Deborah Schiller I graduated from a Christian college in Springfield, Missouri – a Bible Belt town and home to several Christian schools. In those days you could tell which students attended which college by their hairstyles and wardrobe. In comparison to our Baptist brothers and sisters, we Evangelicals […]
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The Most Beautiful People are Formed by Trials By: Susan Deborah Schiller When he peers at me from the pillow next to mine, his merry blue eyes melt me from the inside out – all the icy trials, the numbed fingers of pain that claw and clutch at the last vestiges of my faith, my integrity, and my identity let go. […]
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Believing for a Breakthrough By: Carolyn Hughes Carolyn is a guest blogger today, and one I hope you may get to know better. Her story is one of redemption, reconciliation, and renewal of faith. She speaks with compassion for the broken, hope for the despairing, and love for the wounded! Do you ever doubt God? […]
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I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills By: Susan Deborah Schiller I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.…Psalm 121:1 I believe I am God's beloved child, and that He's been close by my side every day […]
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Children as Elders By: Susan Deborah Schiller The healing began with cutting sage along the Big Horn River, which we used to make Sundance crowns. My granddaughter told me she was nearly crying – crying for the joy of being back in Wyoming. She danced everywhere we went. Dani won the hearts of about a dozen people, […]
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What It Took to Find Me Here in the Freedom Place By: Marvia Davidson, posted with permission I always “thought” I was on firm footing when it came to faith and living. I thought I had some semblance of what it meant to really have it “together”. I thought I could ignore those dark secrets. […]
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Plunging into the Heart of the Plague By: Susan Deborah Schiller Today I finish driving about 2000 miles across country, from my childhood home town to my present home town. It's nice to visit the 1st World but 3rd World living is where I really love to be. There's a plague all around me, but the people […]
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Keep Writing – Change is Happening By: Susan Deborah Schiller For those of you who may be weary of writing to freedom, God is saying, "Keep writing – change is happening!" It's hard work, but as we dip our pens in blood, we are indeed writing the pain away! We write not to bury ourselves in the […]
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Giving Up Everything… and Gaining Back More By: Susan Schiller From the series, "Love from Papa" It was one of those days when the world, like a carousel with its power plug pulled, slowly spriraled to a stop. My carefully folded bulletins fluttered to the seat next to me and I sank like a collapsed […]
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