Dear God, I want to believe You like me, love me, and delight in me.

There’s only one place where things are figured out…

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.