When Staying in a Marriage Means Blocking God's Way By: Kimberly Dimick Editor's note: This letter was originally written to a woman who had stayed decades too long in an abusive marriage. Her husband is divorcing her, but in reality, he divorced her many years ago when he broke covenant through continuous cycles of abuse. […]
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The Bell of Truth Tolls By: Kimberly Dimick Today, Kimberly addresses the common advice victims are told: "To forgive and move on." Too often we are taught to give "easy grace," not realizing the spiritual danger we put our offender in. Also, easy grace allows the offender to continue abusing. TRUE FORGIVENESS does […]
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You Might Have Better Luck Talking to a Grizzly than to an Abuser Who Refuses to Acknowledge Personal Responsibility By: Kimberly Dimick Here's how you know when an abuser is refusing to acknowledge personal responsibility: He dismisses your heart and answers your concerns with attacks, justifications and defenses. All these are excuses he relies upon to […]
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The Most Beautiful People are Formed by Trials By Kimberly Dimick In the series, "Letters to Readers" Dear sister, my heart goes out to you. I understand the emotional and spiritual exhaustion you feel at this point. I know you have tried everything there is to position your husband to obey and love God. You […]
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Beware of the Marriage Trap By: Deborah White Dove Modern wedding vows may be a sign of marriage dysfunction. Marriage vows can be a license to steal, kill, and destroy a woman's soul, along with the children. Marriage vows are not biblical, but making a marriage covenant is. At the heart of love is a covenant […]
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From Ruin to Restoration, Part Two By: Joshua Dimick Part One, By Kimberly Dimick For twenty years I kept my wife and two sons prisoners to my tyranny. I exacted control by using rage and manipulated them by means of my blistering anger. Nothing was about love; everything was about following my rules. I expected […]
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From Ruin to Restoration, Part One By Kimberly Dimick My husband Joshua and I have been married 23 years. We met at Bible College….got married and continued our Biblical Studies after marriage. Joshua was a believer! My dream of a great marriage was supposed to be coming true. It only took a few days to […]
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Why a Wife is Blamed for Her Husband's Infidelity By: Kimberly Dimick The Church has held women down for centuries! It is still going on to this day. God knew of this enmity from the beginning of time, in Genesis 3. The church does not teach marriage rightly nor does it understand divorce because of AB– USE. The […]
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L A Time of Separation By: Kimberly Dimick Intro: Susan Schiller Heaven's light is piercing the darkness, as lightning thrusts its fiery streaks, charging the atmosphere with negative ions and other life-giving elements. In this light we are each waking up and realizing we MUST separate from evil people and systems. Some of us are […]
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What About Forgiveness? By: Susan Deborah Schiller Jesus commanded us to forgive each other, even up to 70 x 7 times, which means "unlimited grace". At the cross, with his dying breath, he prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." In Light of His example, what are we to think, when […]
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When "Grace" Becomes Evil's Accomplice By: Kimberly Dimick With Kimberly's gracious permission, I am sharing her words to me a few years ago, when I was so unwilling to let go of my marriage. I felt "if I just give him more grace and love him more, our marriage can be saved". But there are […]
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How A Praying Cowboy Saved My Life By: Kimberly Dimick Only six months into my marriage, I was already suffering under Joshua's abuse to the point of losing my mind. I had always been a such a joyful person, so when I grew more and more depressed it sent me reeling. I could not get […]
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Crossing Over By: Kimberly Dimick You have seen the last of dread and the excruciating pain of this ordeal. God is proclaiming a new day over your life. The LORD is coming in, like a flood, to drown your enemies, even as God did at the Red Sea. The horses and chariots of man cannot […]
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Honest Talk When a Partner is Abusive By: Kimberly Dimick Nothing will work until he understands that because of his choices to abuse drugs, abuse you and to reject Christ that he has put HIMSELF in the position of losing you and his daughter. Sin has to be confronted with consequences. I am glad you […]
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Divorce in An Abusive Home: Handling the Fears of What Will Happen to the Children By: Kimberly Dimick Concerning God's promises, I remember so clearly when divorcing Joshua that my deepest concern and heartache was for my sons. I was so unsure how a divorce would affect them and wrestled with it being right or […]
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You are Not Alone By: Kimberly Dimick This is a time dear heart, I sense that the smallest, even insignificant whispers of the Lord will be reminders to you that you are not alone. It is true that when life is chaotic and every evil thing is unleashed against us that the […]
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Consolation and Uplifting to a Daughter Who is Hurting By: Kimberly Dimick I know you are hurting and struggling. I want you to know that your heartache matters to me. I wish I had some way of swooping down and lifting you up, darling girl. When I was a young girl, struggling […]
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Prayer for a Child at Risk By: Kimberly Dimick We cry out for justice and mercy in Heaven's court, because the earthly justice system is inadequate at best, and abusive to abuse victims, at worst. Father, Romans 8 tells us that when we do not know how to pray or even what we ought to […]
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Avoid this Trap: Standing Under A Distorted Command of "Submission" By: Kimberly Dimick The following letter was written to a woman who was enduring false submission to her abusive husband during the same time that Kimberly was divorcing Joshua. (Kimberly's and Joshua's "ruins to restoration" stories are available by clicking their names. Please let me […]
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By: Kimberly Dimick The following is a letter written to an abusive husband about marriage and divorce, based on study of God's Word. Specifically, we are going to take a look at abandonment, emotional divorce and separation. Strong's Number: 7971 Transliterated Word Shalach Phonetic Spelling shaw-lakh' Definition: To send, send away, let go, […]
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