God takes the cost of abuse and turns it into treasure.

Are our actions — including the lack of action! — pleasing to God during this election time, or not, and what can we commit ourselves to change?

I need the cross. I look up to see Jesus there upon it. While we suffer, God still suffers. Every parent understands this.

We can work to make God’s voice louder than the dark words.

Somehow and some way, right now, despite the darkness, despite the ignorance, despite the suffering, God’s victory is leaking in.

We dare to think God will be overcome by problems of our manufacture?

Becoming stilled is a process. And You, not our trauma, are God.

What we do to counter God’s will, what others do to mess things up, what Satan does to disorder things, NONE of that amounts to anything when it comes up against GOD.

God doesn’t need our submission, but we need it in order to see, to understand, and to rise above all that can kill us!

The more we realize we can’t, the more we look to God for the will and the way.

When “just pray” and “just breathe” do not work, this is my prerequisite.

Chronic abuse hangs on tight. It forms attitudes we take with us into adulthood. But we can change.