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Peace is a Weapon

An Uncommon Peace By: Susan Deborah Schiller When I write, I write in peace. I write from a peaceful place. Peace is a weapon. To find that peace, I must retreat, rest, and re-examine all my promises. I must re-evaluate my position, check my compass, and listen for God's quiet voice amidst the thunderous roar […]

What?? She’s a Pagan?

"She's a Pagan!" By: White Dove I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.…Psalm 121:1 Well, it seems someone close to me decided to call up some people and proclaim loudly that I am a pagan. Whatever I […]

A Manifesto for Overcoming a Smear Campaign

A Lesson from Jeremiah about Racing Against Horses By: White Dove To love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength during the normal times is a good thing. To love him with the same passion (or more) when it seems the whole world stands opposed to you, is a whole different level of […]

Listening in the Night Watches

Listening in the Night Watches By: White Dove The story you don't want to write may be sounding an alarm in the night watches. You can't sleep, stumble out of bed, and wonder if you should get something to eat or watch TV. But if you listen in the night watch, the untold story – […]

Opening the Eyes of My Heart

Looking Deeper, Looking Beyond the Natural By: Susan Deborah Schiller Photo Source Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle There's a friendship with God that is so deep you can only get to it on the same path Christ Jesus took when He was betrayed, falsely accused, […]

The Most Powerful Weapon to Defeat a Smear Campaign

The Most Powerful Weapon to Defeat a Smear Campaign By: White Dove The best part of life is creating memories with our friends and family. We laugh at old jokes and tease each other for past escapades. Who doesn't like to reminisce about the good ole days? It's like a fountain of neverending life, and […]

Faith + Feeling + Focus = FREEDOM & Being Fully Alive!

Walking in the Light By: White Dove I believe we're given "mission impossibles" because there's something we need to learn about God's nature and how it alters our ongoing life story. We're each here to experience and display the glorious facets of God's nature. We're designed to SHINE! For abuse survivors, our stories may seem dark […]

Evil’s Silent Accomplice

Evil's Silent Accomplice By: Deborah White Dove "In my hands I have a piece of piano wire and I'm going to slice off your breasts with it… Next, I'm going to put a bullet in the back of your head and watch your body drop into the rock quarry," threatened my husband, as he emphasized […]

A Season of Unprecedented Favor

Don't Give Up Just Before Your Breakthrough! By: White Dove Early this morning, just upon awakening, I heard Papa's whisper, "This is a season of unprecedented favor!" I felt greatly encouraged, so much that I couldn't go back to sleep. Not long ago, also in between dreaming and waking, in a vision I was deep within […]

Dealing with Abusive Men in the Church: Why You Don’t Need to Forgive Them or Offer Them More Grace

Abusers: You Don't Need to Forgive Them or Give Them More Grace Sermon Audio by Sam Powell I hope you will listen to Sam Powell's sermon (link above). I've taken a few notes from the sermon, below. What he preaches is contrary to the policy of many churches. It's the Truth, as I have experienced […]

Tell Your Story

Tell your story, heal your world. By: White Dove "It may be that when we no longer know what to do, We have come to our real work, And when we no longer know which way to go, We have begun our real journey." – Wendell Berry We have enough victims in this dark world; […]

Closure with an Abuser

By: White Dove Some enemies are meant to return to us as friends. Others are "tares" or "children of the devil" and they have committed themselves to destruction. We cannot align ourselves with them. We cannot forgive them, give them grace, or have any type of fellowship with them. We are not even to pray […]

The Physics of Faith, Hope and Love

Faith as a Catalyst for Hope and Love By: Susan Deborah Schiller There are still days when I feel disconnected… like my brain has a huge lag… when I feel lost in the dark. The neuroscience behind pathological love relationships helps me to understand there will be these kinds of days. It takes a long time […]

Neuroscience Behind Pathological Love Relationships

In the PTSD Zone: The Anti-Happiness Plague Have you stepped down from a career? Feel like your life will never be normal again? Unable to take normal environmental noise and stress anymore? Are you asking, "What happened to me – I can't think straight anymore!" Do you have feelings of having lost identity? Are you […]

The Fire of His Love is My Protection

I Am Surrounded by a Holy Wall of Fire By: White Dove Do you need protection? Security? Nothing this world offers is as safe as the Fire of Love, and here's how it works out in a practical way…. God once promised me, "I will surround you with a holy wall of fire." As usual, […]

His Eye is on the Sparrow

His Eye is on the Sparrow By: White Dove The song, "His Eye is on the Sparrow," has been playing on the Spirit station of my mind. "Economic justice" is a phrase I've been running into a lot lately, and it's message is burrowing deep into my mind. Down beneath the layers of self-preservation. Who […]

Moving that Mountain to Find Your True Self

Moving that Mountain to Find Your True Self By: Susan Deborah Schiller The journey to freedom tests everything in you. We're talking miles and miles of torturous, narrow paths that point you straight up steep mountain cliffs and across jagged precipices. Sharp rocks and dizzy heights are the unnegotiables on this path. I don't […]

Freedom from Fear

Freedom "Leave me here freely all alone In cell where never sunlight shone should no one ever speak to me This golden silence makes me free." Part of a poem written by a prisoner at Dachau concentration camp I used to dream every night about escaping concentration camps. Inwardly, a concentration camp is our […]

Bringing heaven to earth even when you feel shattered

"You need intensive care. Why don't you go lay on a beach and listen to the waves!" said caring church members who had been watching me slip away into the fog of PTSD symptoms. Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and a host of other diseases plague victims of abuse, like flies on a carcass. It's a form of […]

The “Perfect Prey” for a Religious Sociopath

The Perfect Prey By: Susan Deborah Schiller Next Chapters: Part 1: The Perfect Prey Part 2: 10 Red Flags You're Marrying A Sociopath Part 3: Did You Marry the Wrong Mr. Right? Part 4: Create Your Own Jailbreak Bethany Deaton, age 27, died October 30, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri with a plastic […]

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