Where Do You Wind Down? By: Susan Deborah Schiller In the "Devotional" series Our complex society winds us up long before the morning alarm clock and keeps us strung taught well past midnight. Migraines, stomach pains, and even weight gain (due to high levels of cortisol during stressful moments) are symptoms that we need to pull […]
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Wounds are Windows for the Glory of God By: Susan Deborah Schiller Our wounds are windows that show God’s artwork shining through the mosaic of our soul. I believe it’s silence and solitude that cause our inner flame to glow. Silence and solitude are our companions on the journey within, which I call “On the Way […]
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She Has a Right to Be Loved By: Kimberly Dimick I find that many ministers are not bold enough to confront men about being tyrants in their homes. So MANY women are silenced–their voices squelched from even crying out to be rescued. Why? The Church will not believe her. This is the worst stain upon […]
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What Do You Want? By: White Dove What if a simple question, "What do you want?" were to reset your compass needle? What if following your dream is a God-given mandate that you not only deserve but are required to pursue? It certainly helps to know your destination! As an abuse survivor, I discovered that […]
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Diary of a Battered Preacher’s Wife – “Straight Talk, Wife-to-Wife” A letter from a dear friend, Kimberly Dimick, when I was “King’s Bride” on a marriage forum… listen in as a formerly abused wife shares when it’s time for a Christian wife to back away from her marriage and to quit standing, praying, and waiting […]
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Tangled in the Tares By: Susan Deborah schiller In the series, "Love from Papa" Don't worry about scary beasts with horns carrying pitchforks – that's not true evil. The most hideous evil in the world is dressed up to look like a nice, perfect Christian. In fact, the Christian abuser is the worst kind. Lucifer, dressed in a cloak of Light. What […]
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Light House in the Storm By: Susan Deborah Schiller An entry from an online diary – interactive with other abuse survivors – part of my mini-memoir-in-progress… July 13, 2011 Last evening I had dinner with a friend, and she invited me to rent her house from her, as she is leaving to work out East…. it […]
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Help is on the Way! By: Kimberly Dimick Previous Stories: Kimberly's Love Story & From Ruin to Restoration, Josh's Love Story I have sensed in my heart from the Lord and cannot shake it, that the Lord is moving even now and even as you read this Word and receive His love for you, that […]
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When Staying in a Marriage Means Blocking God's Way By: Kimberly Dimick Editor's note: This letter was originally written to a woman who had stayed decades too long in an abusive marriage. Her husband is divorcing her, but in reality, he divorced her many years ago when he broke covenant through continuous cycles of abuse. […]
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Sometimes Pain is a Gift By: Susan Deborah Schiller There was a time to break my silence and to tell my story of how I lived as a battered preacher's wife for 20 years in an abusive marriage, with more than 10 years of consequences in the aftermath of sociopathic abuse. And now is a time […]
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Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense By: Linda Tirado Editor's Note: Stories are wake up calls. Our response to a story can lull us deeper into slumber, if we simply become saddened. Or our empathy with the storyteller can enrage us, empower us, and equip us to change ourselves and in so doing, help change the world. […]
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Rising Up from the Ashes of Defeat By: Susan Deborah Schiller "Can anyone hear my silence? Can they hear my tortured screams behind closed doors? Do they see the bruises in my soul, so painful I am crying every day?" These words were penned years ago in one of my journals, following a particularly difficult […]
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By: Susan Deborah Schiller in the series "Create Your World" Have you ever felt like you were constantly in a state of reacting to what is happening around you? Shari, a reader, shared the following story with me: "I feel dead. It started 10-years ago and it's only gotten worse. The doctors gave me an EEG […]
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