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Theocentric Thursdays: Link Up with Us!

It’s Thursday and it’s time for a link-up again! Please join me with this amazing group of bloggers (and new ones to come!) and add your favorite post from your blog. Come back and visit the previous two posts on the link-up and offer them support and don’t forget to return and vote! The more support you give, the more you’ll receive as you bring awareness of yourself to the other bloggers and learn from their posts. Enjoy this wonderful community! Below please read the link-up information from my friend and hostess, Carrie Ann’s blog and get to know us! Continue Reading

July 9, 2015
Abuse and Self Care, Encouragement, Health

Abusive Relationships: No Shame and Misplaced Blame

What keeps abuse victims in the abusive relationships that oppress them so severely?

Confusion: Why has this happened? I must have caused it.

Helplessness: How do I get out? There’s no way out so I must deserve to stay.

Loneliness: No one will ever understand because surely this has never happened to anyone but me. I’m all alone. It’s my shameful secret.

Shame: I can’t tell people how I’m being treated; it’s embarrassing, shameful; something must be wrong with me…. Continue Reading

July 7, 2015
Abuse and Self Care, Encouragement, Health

Emotional Abuse and Lifetime Movies

Many of us, especially women, have probably seen at least one Lifetime movie and they’re almost all centered around a single female who’s usually suffered prior emotional abuse in a previous relationship, who meets “Prince Charming” and he turns out to be even worse than the husband she’s recovering from. The stories are often a bit contrived and always predictable, but there is some value in them. There’s truth in the manipulation that occurs in movies of this genre.

It’s been quite awhile since I’ve indulged in a Lifetime movie. They’re hard to watch now. I see myself in them in the corners of the details of these women’s lives. This particular movie “Intimate Stranger”, was about a divorced, single mother who has a very jealous ex-husband. After years of devoting herself to work and her son, she meets a kind, handsome, dashing man who sweeps her off her feet… Continue Reading

July 5, 2015
Encouragement, Life Is Beautiful

Theocentric Thursdays Blog Hop!

It’s Thursday and I have the sincere honor of co-hosting a Blog Hop! This is my first time and I’d love for you to join me and this talented group of bloggers. You’ll find amazing support here. Read this post and find the info the bottom and join us!

Happy Independence Day weekend! Celebrate our liberties, our love, and our blessed freedom!

If you know me at all the last couple years, you know I’m a little into the idea of superheroes. Now, do I have a favorite superhero?
Yep. Jesus.

After him are people whose names you wouldn’t recognize. They don’t come in action figures. They won’t ever have a movie made about them. And unfortunately they don’t even have awesome superhero-ish names.

They’re just regular everyday people like you and me who do amazing things. Many of them aren’t even 18 yet.
I’m excited that this week’s featured post brings out a new superhero quality.

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July 2, 2015