breakthrough to freedom

Breakthrough to Freedom: Leaving the Past Behind

Over the last several weeks I’ve been working my way through Dr. John Demartini’s book, The Breakthrough Experience. This is the biggest breakthrough to freedom I have ever had. If everything I’ve been through has been to bring me to this book, it was worth it. I have gained so many insights. Such rich understanding has […]

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Gratitude Is a Choice That Leads to Love

My two boys have been living with my sister for the last couple months and I see them on weekends. It’s been so weird not having them with me. My older son graduates on the 27th and then their dad wants to bring them to Utah for the summer. My graduate is off to UGA in […]

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Marriage and Music: Finding the Harmony

I woke up this morning with an interesting insight into my marriage that relates to the music I’ve been playing with my family since my mother’s death.My dad, cousin Jody and I have been playing music together. My dad plays the harmonica. My cousin Jody plays the guitar and sings, and I sing along. I’ve […]

Divorce: What Marketing Taught Me About Incompatibility

This morning I was wondering about what aspects of me my husband did love. He had to have loved something at some point and probably still does. His family said they’d never seen him as happy as he’d been with me. Even they were flabbergasted at his decision to cut me off from one day […]

challenge and support

Challenge and Support

When anything unpleasant happens in our lives, we’ll have some people who commiserate with us and some who tell us to “get over it, let it go and move on.” Even though we don’t want to hear that second one, the second is every bit as much love as the first. Divine love contains both […]

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The Embarrassment and Humiliation of Rejection

One of the waves of emotion that washes over me, perhaps once or twice a day is embarrassment and humiliation. It comes unbidden, uninvited, without warning — a sick, nauseated feeling in the pit of my stomach that spreads out all through my chest, shoulders and arms in a wash of anxiety. It’s a hammering […]

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The Blessings of Pain

Had I not gone through such a heart wrenching, mysterious rejection alongside my mother’s death would I have ever known how much I am supported and loved by so many? Would I have ever known that people I’ve never even met in person would actually fast and pray for me? Would I have ever had […]

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What I Learned About Me Through Rejection

My dad has patiently listened to me analyze the crap out of my marriage. Finally today he said, “You need to stop looking for something you did wrong. You’re probably never going to understand what happened. He probably doesn’t even know what happened.” I have always had this belief that no matter what I go […]

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Forgiving Yourself: You Did The Best You Could

A blog was posted in a group about a woman who had a successful career when she first married, and left the work world to stay home with her special needs children. She devoted her life to her children and didn’t keep up with her skills. Then she and her husband split up and she […]

Alien Who Ate My Heart

The Alien Who Ate My Heart

You said you loved me. That no woman had ever treated you right. That what you wanted, what you needed Was a good woman like me So you could live in love and harmony. I asked God if I should marry you. The divine love that filled my heart Could never be denied. Nor the […]