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Author: Bethanee

On Crushing and Rebuilding and All the Silence

On Crushing and Rebuilding and All the Silence

So you may have noticed that other than a short post in January and February, I haven’t written much in 2017.  And if you didn’t notice, pretend you did…help a girl’s ego. It’s not as if I haven’t had anything to write about, or that […]

Grace and Truth and 4 years ago today

Grace and Truth and 4 years ago today

I just looked at the calendar this morning.  Four years, really, only four?  Four years ago today that my world changed forever?  Four years since the one who hurt me began to see… The moment I begin to see the one who hurt me as broken is the very moment I […]

God, help me, I’m afraid.

God, help me, I’m afraid.

I sit here on a sunny and cold winter afternoon.  Fighting a battle I thought I’d won years ago.  But here we are again. Anxiety. Any of you ever heard of it?  Felt it?  It’s like a vice that squeezes the life, the joy, the peace right […]

What We All Really Need This New Year’s Eve

What We All Really Need This New Year’s Eve

A new beginning.  A fresh start. That’s secretly what we all want in the New Year, right?  To make right all that has been wrong.  To fix that problem, to repair that relationship, to pay off that bill, to clean up our diet – our […]