Tag: Shame

  • 232. Graced: How God Redeems and Restores the Broken — Teresa Whiting

    232. Graced: How God Redeems and Restores the Broken — Teresa Whiting

    Have you ever walked with silent shame? Maybe there is something you have gone through? Maybe there is something you experienced? Or maybe there has been something done to you, and you thought to yourself, I don’t want anyone to know this. But in your mind, these words just keep playing, If they only knew?…

  • God’s heart is to rescue, redeem, and restore you!

    God’s heart is to rescue, redeem, and restore you!

    We sat cross-legged in the woods behind my neighbor’s house, leaves crunching beneath us. There, I spilled all the gory details. As a seven-year-old, I didn’t know it was called abuse. I just knew I felt dirty and scared, and I had no idea how to process what had just happened. I figured my neighbor,…

  • 193. Never Lose Sight of God’s Grace — Faith Griffin Sims

    193. Never Lose Sight of God’s Grace — Faith Griffin Sims

    Have you been following this series with my STRENGTH acrostic from my Depth Book? We have already covered S,T,R, & E and then we took a break for the one year birthday of the book. Now we are back to the acrostic and today we are going to cover N- Never Lose Sight of God’s…

  • Held By His Strength

    Held By His Strength

    I don’t do it every year, but in January 2014, I reluctantly settled on my “word of the year.” In praying about which word I felt led to, I resisted the one continually popping into my thoughts: strength. It held a weight—heavy and hard—and I didn’t like the sense of impending doom that hung like…