Reaching Hurting Women Ministries
A Contemplative Christian Outreach for Women™
In response to last week’s question: What hurt would you like to see discussed? My longtime friend and school mate, Ren, suggested: “What about relapse? It’s going around.” Before getting Ren’s suggestion, I had already been led to write about the recovery principle ~Self-Protection. I was excited to get her suggestion because Relapse and Self-Protection …
Growing up in a lower-middle class family, with one income didn’t provide for many luxuries. We rarely ate at restaurants. We’d buy the Colonel’s chicken but mother would cook everything else. We vacationed in a tent or camper; never staying in motels. And when it came time to purchase groceries my mother was never taken …
Spiritually and/or naturally – life is a battle. We are waging war constantly. We all battle Resistance in some form; whether we’re starting a new company, trying to salvage our marriage, leading a project, writing a blog or just trying to clean the house. Resistance, like a faithful friend but more of an enemy, …
As Christians many of us don’t know exactly what to do with the Passover holiday. Isn’t it only a Jewish tradition? I’d like to take a look at this important holiday and maybe give you a fresh way to look at it in your life today. You may recall the 1956 classic movie The Ten …
Reviewed by Tamara Mapp Posted February 26, 2010 Free Book by Brian Tome Thomas Nelson, February 2010 230 pp., $14.99 I recently joined a new kind of book club: BookSneeze. As a member I receive a free book in exchange for an honest review on my blog. Upon joining it didn’t take me long to …
Most of us at the beginning of our recovery are feeling wobbly, unstable and unworthy to be in God’s presence; not to mention undeserving of His love, mercy and forgiveness. How do we get past these feelings & press in to healing? Summer 2004 I began working on sobriety but had no real strength within …
With the Thanksgiving holiday, it is fitting that God has given me the subject of gratitude for this week’s post. More than just taking one day to give thanks for the people and things we have in our lives, I’d like to go deeper and discuss on going attitudes of our hearts. For years as …
If you’re a ‘Baby Boomer’ like me you may remember the old game show called I’ve Got a Secret. The show aired from 1952-1967 and was one of my parent’s favorites. The format was simple: while the secret flashed on the TV screen for the viewing audience, four panelists took turns questioning the person with …
I’ve become fascinated by a new television program my son John recently introduced me to called Fringe. It’s a Sci-fi series about a female FBI agent assigned to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern. She teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist and his son who perform experiments on the fringe …
For some weeks now God has been prompting me to write this blog. I don’t know if it’s the pressures of a recent full time job, the waiting for our new business venture to be funded, living in a one room hotel with my husband, son, two dogs and a snake or just plain fatigue …