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12 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - like it was His plan · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you...again.

12 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - small circle fame and ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Can't wait to hear what you've learned. Take all the time you need...
My recent post Animal vs. Diabolical Self

13 years ago @ inprogress - Heaven got a gift toni... · 1 reply · +1 points

Yesterday the tears wouldn't stop.
Today I've been in a stupor.
It's very strange how all of this works...how we touch one another through the ether and then have the privilege of meeting face to face...and we become family. I only had a few short days with the Frantzes a few years ago. It was life-changing.

13 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - everybody has damage · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks... more great words to spark my meditations.

(I used some of your words in my recent post... )

14 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - forgiveness isn't an e... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yeah.

14 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - forgiveness isn't an e... · 2 replies · +1 points

I heard recently, and it makes perfect sense to me: Forgiveness takes one. Reconciliation takes two.

I can forgive. The other person may not choose to do so...and reconciliation might never take place. But, I am forgiven and can forgive without their participation, just as, God has forgiven me. The whole world is forgiven, but is the whole world reconciled? Nope. That takes two. When I am in agreement with God that He has it all covered (by the blood of His Son), then I am reconciled to Him.

My ex-husband says he has forgiven me, but he refuses to be reconciled. Only God knows if his heart is true...has he truly forgiven me? I don't know. I do know, we are not reconciled for he refuses to speak.

Love what you've said here! Thanks.

14 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - wait · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes.
My recent post My Friend, Big Lane

14 years ago @ Grace Is For Sinners - when to judge · 1 reply · +1 points

Outstanding!

My recent post Are You Dancing…

14 years ago @ inprogress - The Writing Struggle · 1 reply · +1 points

Keep writing, Tammy-Jo! If not for the book, at least for yourself. Get it all out on paper...let it flow without fear. You can always go back and edit out what you feel would hurt another, but in the writing, you will heal even more.

I'm praying for you.

14 years ago @ inprogress - choosing hurt over hea... · 0 replies · +1 points

(I guess I was too wordy...had to split the comment...)
Some of us have been victims of abuse for many many years...and some never really escape it. God knows who's who. We're told to help the weak, encourage the fainthearted, and admonish the unruly. If I choose to admonish the fainthearted, or the weak, because I think they are "playing the victim", then I am not living with the compassion He has commanded.

We're all trying to learn the dance...I think...
I hope.

(I'm trying to learn what it means to live forgiven...without labels and condemning thoughts.)

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