Thinking about a worship song for this Wednesday has brought me to “A King Like No Other”. I have been dealing with the challenges of PTSD that has been exacerbated lately. My head swirls with intrusive thoughts and terrifying flashbacks of a really dark time during my adolescence. It has been hard to choose just the […]

posted by Flux
Tags: flashbacks, King of Kings, locusts destroyed, perpetrators, redeemed
Filed under: Comfort, Emotion, Flashbacks/Memories, Life, Pain, Worship Wednesday

The lyrics of “Moved by Mercy” are familiar for many abuse survivors. Nightmares are a part of PTSD and adults who were sexually abused as children are survivors of war to be certain. I can’t count how many times both night and day, I have wished I could go back and hold the child who was […]

posted by Flux
Tags: abuse survivor, Matthew West, Moved by Mercy, sexual abuse
Filed under: Comfort, Life, Pain, Worship Wednesday

I needed a reminder as my melancholy mood has kept my voice here quiet. It seems that when I need to write the most I am the least motivated to do it. The following is an excerpt from the movie “Precious” where a young girl is pregnant with her second child by her own father. Precious […]

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Filed under: Comfort, Emotion, Fear, Life, Pain, Quotes, Recovery, Resources

As I prepare myself for the funeral tonight, celebrating the life of the woman who had lost her strength to fight, I came across a paper with these three truths. PLEASE Always Remember: (and come back here if you forget!!) There is not anything that has happened to you that you cannot heal from. There […]

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Filed under: Comfort, Life, Pain, Quotes, Recovery, Resources, Scripture

I posted this song awhile ago when I first found it. It is now my angry music when I am allowing the pain and the rage to move through me. Today when I was searching YouTube, I found this version which was created more recently. It is very intense in both the images the creator posted and […]

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Filed under: Emotion, Life, Pain, Recovery, Resources, Shame, Sorrow