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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Astonished by the Most Brilliant Light in the Darkest Times By: Susan Deborah Schiller Following the Light means choosing Love, and for me today that's reading old journals, which I call conversations with Daddy. I like to call them "brilliant thoughts" – like stars piercing through the dark heavens. A brilliant thought originates beyond my […]
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Give What You Have By: Susan Deborah Schiller I offer you another chapter from my memoir, "On the Way Home". This chapter takes place in 2011, a time when my husband abandoned me in the desert and ran off with another woman. I was trying to restart my life in an unfamiliar city. * * * * * * * * * * […]
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Love from Papa By: White Dove What I hear Papa saying… "Let's talk about provision, even in winter," I heard Papa God whisper to me. In my mind's eye I saw an apple orchard, like the one in my backyard… the emotions of abundance, freedom, and beauty came with that memory. "I want to give you […]
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Writing through Disability, Disease, and Death By: White Dove From my mini-memoir… Sixty percent of our North American population relies on some type of drug to control their dis-ease. Anxiety is at an all-time high and stress forms the roots of most infirmity. No one has prescribed anything for me and I don't take any […]
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Heaven is Only a Whisper Away By: Susan Deborah Schiller If living with a sociopath has made worn you down, depressed, and sickened your body, mind, and spirit it's time to turn the tables. Today I'm going to introduce strategies that will make your enemy sick and tired – even depressed – until he runs. I want to […]
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The Unmaking By: Susan Deborah Schiller How am I to interpret the meaning of a life lived in servitude to a sociopathic husband – a leader of our family and church? What happens when the devastation – emotional, economic, and neurological – forces us to reconsider what we want from life and what we don't want? […]
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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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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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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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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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We’re on the Way Home By: White Dove Do you feel like you’re in a free fall, never able to get ahead? Do the same patterns of tragedy keep cycling in your family? Have you ever wondered how you’ll make it to retirement, whether financially or emotionally? The dark may be rising all around the […]
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You are no Ordinary Being! By: Susan Deborah Schiller Who are you to be ordinary? Who are you to deny greatness? You, who were made to be like Christ and love in radical ways. You, who were called by Christ to follow him past the grave and to resurrection. To deny this […]
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"I Dare to Believe" by Susan Schiller Audio Version Available Here Abstract artist, Pablo Picasso said that "the chief enemy of creativity is good sense." What do you think? Yesterday, someone said publicly, "Sue, she's fearless!" Oh, but I am not! Not yet. I simply broke up with Normal. I burned the bridge, you see. I'm […]
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Family is the backbone of society. By: Susan Deborah Schiller I have a dream of building a community, offline and online, where every member is loved to life through the sharing of our stories. Storytelling, in an atmosphere of unconditional acceptance, heals our bodies, minds, and souls. I envision within the whole, many smaller circles […]
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The Morning Prayer Poem By: Danielle Bednarcik Imagine you've just had a long drive, moving from out of state and you're really tired, burned out, and you wonder if you've made the right decision. Did you hear God's voice? That was me, 4 years ago. With a clear, confident voice, your 6-year old granddaughter begins […]
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I Call Upon the Lion of Judah By: Susan Schiller "You will meet evil face-to-face and you will not like it. You will be betrayed and abandoned by the people you love, even those you thought were your best friends. Most of all it will be lonely, very lonely. Do you still want to follow […]
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Source: google.com via Gone_Social Marketing on Pinterest Speak the Truth, Even if your Voice Shakes By: Susan Deborah Schiller There are wars raging right now in this world that no one sees or hears, for the bloody battles are staged behind barbed wire prison walls that the average person cannot conceive exist. Can there really […]
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Pursue Being Powerful By: Susan Deborah Schiller After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. – Madeleine L'Engle There are many of us who have given our all. We've laid down ministries, businesses, and have watched even our reputation ruined in […]
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