A Gratitude Challenge By: Susan Deborah Schiller What if there was a bridge to an abundant life and it was called Gratitude? Whatever we focus on magnifies! Our beliefs create thoughts. Thoughts are energy. Energy draws from heaven and brings it to earth. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is […]
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What Would You Do if You Had No Barriers? By: Susan Deborah Schiller The most 'impossible' challenges require dropping down to a child's level, for that's the only way to understand Kingdom solutions. I've found the best way to be childlike is to hang around children and do kid-stuff together. This past month my granddaughter and […]
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In the Midst of Chaos is Opportunity By: White Dove Chaos poured out of the sky, down to earth, in the form of hideous monsters that took foot, running, as soon as they reached earth. Each had an assignment of terror and destruction; their targets already marked. I looked for the source of this chaos […]
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A Whisper in the Darkness Becomes A Ray of Hope By: Susan Deborah Schiller There are no words to describe the spiritual rape and slow death of a soul in the onslaught of sociopathic abuse. Among fellow survivors we find empathy and compassion, but few solid answers. An encounter with true evil means you will […]
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A Return to the Garden of Eden By: Susan Schiller. I discovered this lifestyle of intimacy with God and with each other as an ordinary mom putting her kids to bed at night. I loved our bedtime rituals of baths, stories, and singing our favorite songs, but to be honest, my second favorite time of […]
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From my Summer 2009 journal… a look at life beyond fear: In a dream I saw a young girl, about 7 years old, visiting our church, and in a very simple childlike manner showing us how to live in a continual state of joy, peace, and fullness of every kind of blessing. "I died with Christ. That means […]
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January 18, 2016 – I'm back full-circle to the place where God gently scraped the scales of religion off my blind eyes… a high plains desert in Wyoming. In April 2011, when I first landed in this small town, I knew no one here. So God sent Secret Heroes to my rescue. My truck was hopelessly […]
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Joy By: Deborah White Dove Joy… is not what I felt when a neurosurgeon diagnosed my husband with a severe spinal cord injury. The year was 2003 and we were on a multi-million dollar hazmat project. We were a small team of inexperienced operators and my husband, the supervisor, was the only one with real experience. […]
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Sparrow Talk By: Susan Deborah Schiller If I were a sparrow, what would I see each day? Big birds, and lots of them, pushing and fighting for the best sunflower seeds. When the big birds swoop in, the sparrows flee to the nearest tree. Sparrows don't push or fight, but their needs and wants are […]
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Voice of the Moon Flower By: White Dove The scorching desert was anything but barren, and it became my classroom for the year 2011. From living in the corner of a hayfield to camping alongside the Big Horn River, it’s where I learned to survive… and through trust, to thrive. The desert was better than […]
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Silence is Evil's Favorite Accomplice By: Kimberly Dimick Editor's Note: As Christian wives, often we equate gentleness, mercy, and grace with holiness. We think of Jesus who was led to slaughter without raising his voice. We understand that "long suffering, patience and kindness" are gifts of the Holy Spirit. And most of all, we've heard all […]
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YOU ARE A WARRIOR PRINCESS! You are a warrior like no other! You have been lied about, lied to, hit, kicked, stolen from, mistreated, been the brunt of anger, but yet you love! You are a woman that seeks help for your children and works hard to give your family the best! You are on call 24/7. […]
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The Little Girls We Were are Coming Back to us! By: Kimberly Dimick In the "Hope for Survivors" series God wants each of you to know that He is not done and this is not the end, but the beginning of a new beginning. New beginnings come in increments or steps. The most treacherous part […]
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I am Loved. All is Well. Everything I need and want is already here. It was placed in reserve at the time the world was created, long before I was ever born. (Ephesians 1) Even though I accept this Truth because God has promised to never abandon me, I still struggle with over-thinking and trying […]
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You Are Not Too Much By: Susan Schiller Photo Source, used wtih permission: Epiphany Art Studio (Beth Morey, artist) I love to hear your voice, sweet one. You are not too much. You will never be too much. You're not alone. This battle is not yours to fight; it's Mine. Don't hold back your story. […]
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Cleansing and Healing the Land By: Susan Deborah Schiller I went walking down the road past our ranch that leads deep into Indian territory. Walking for miles into the desolate wasteland of buffalo, antelope, sagebrush, and empty beer bottles, I noticed the road changing with every mile away from “civilization”. Weeds began to take over the […]
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Marriage Advice I Wish I Would Have Had Reposted from Gerald Roger's Facebook Note The following "Marriage Advice" article written by Gerald Rogers has been reblogged and circulated through many channels this year, and because it's so "right on" I wanted to share with you, in case you haven't read it yet. Let's continue to […]
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What Does Papa God Say about all the Betrayal and Injustice? When Will It End? By: Kimberly Dimick "Where does the betrayal and injustice end???" asks a young wife, betrayed and abandoned by the one who once promised to love, honor, and cherish her till death do they part. Kimberly Dimick responds: My heart breaks […]
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What is a Sociopath? By: Susan Deborah Schiller I was married to a sociopath for 30-years. My marriage counselors told me I was the most abused woman they had ever met. In the course of gaining my freedom I have listened to the life stories of survivors and of sociopaths. Like many other survivors, the information […]
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To Whisper a Doxology in the Darkness By: Susan Deborah Schiller Photo Credit: Akiane Gallery, License purchased in 2010 To be grateful for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of God in the face of the marvels, cruel circumstances, obscenities, and commonplaces of life […]
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