Christians are often told to love and forgive. But what does that look like when someone continually takes advantage of your empathy and forgiveness? How can a relationship continue with someone who puts on a show of changed behavior for a time and then goes back to taking advantage of you? Is that really a healthy and loving cycle in […]
Breathing erratically, my mind raced. I prayed for God to take away this pain that pierced deeper than any physical pain I could have imagined. Reeling, I was sick to my stomach. My brain was trying to re-wire itself as to what was real and what I had been told was “real” from a loved one. Their reality and actual […]
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8 (ESV) “He who covers and forgives an offense, seeks love, but he who repeats or gossips about a matter separates intimate friends.” Proverbs 17:9 (AMP) In my early twenties, I lived in a dark place. Second-guessing decisions often left me empty and in […]