What frames of mind formed from the abuse remain rooted in you?

In what ways do you choose to stay in your darkness?

We need to be big people, God, not ones swaying in the wind.

Abuse bleeds into our perceptions of all things, but God’s grace offers the way out.

In what ways does a fear of not mattering impact your life?

God will run straight at what hurts us.

We think if suffering remains, prayers are not answered. This is not true. Prayers are always answered. God is always with us.

With God’s help, we can replace the old and painful with the joyfully new.

Suffering’s downward force is met and more than matched by God. The more we learn to see this and participate with it, with God, the more we can transform ourselves and the world around us.

If we don’t admit our limitations, we’re not apt to see the greater picture, the more refined understanding, the corrections needed to keep growing, learning, and drawing closer to God and how God made things.

The voice of God within you is the force urging you to keep looking, to doubt the deprivation talk, and to take your place with God in the coming of the Kingdom.