Forgiveness, the fruit of healing wounds

How often we have heard…”You just need to give it to God! Let it go! You need to choose to forgive!” We may say those words, yet internally we either stuff the pain down inside or even find it sometimes impossible to move past it. Sometimes even years later, those painful wounds, come back to...

Freeing Captives Sirius-ly

I want to share an encounter from several months ago. This encounter is not to scare you, and NOT TO encourage you to go there. Actually, I highly recommend you DO NOT go there unless God directs you to. The reason I share this story is that there are a few great lessons in it....

The Boy and His Sword

There were approximately 20.6 million people who suffer from addiction in the United States over the age of 12 in 2011. Addiction can be such a large hurdle to cross. Countless people in this world have grown up with a mindset that they are going to hell, because of their continued struggles with addiction. What...

Under the Fragment Rug

WARNING: May trigger fragments as it has to deal with deep emotional trauma. I am sharing this because I believe God wants to use it to bring healing and freedom to many who struggle with deep pain. If being vulnerable about my own inner journey of healing helps someone else discover how deeply Jesus can...

My Journey of Emotional Healing

Life growing up was not so easy in my house. I was an only child and had two parents that loved me, but my Mom had a daily struggle with chronic pain, mental illness, and depression which leads to a life of alcoholism and addiction to painkillers. Sometimes as often as 2-4 times in a...