When we give our woundedness over to God willingly and completely, it is transformed into a beautiful sacrifice that He receives with tender compassion, converts to refining brokenness and poverty of spirit that He loves and redeems and uses to enfold us into the...
Deep or wide…… I have transported glass enough over the years to know first hand that it should be borne in a vertical position, resting upright on its thin edge and braced against shifting rather than spread out lying down flat. As safe as that horizontal...
God is the Boundary Originator and the Final Boundary…. the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega…. Adam and Eve had freedom within a broad range of options with minimal restrictions…God IS the Original Boundary-and- Boundary-Setter and...
“I Pity the Fool” Cathy Byrd 9-10-17 In their seminal book “Boundaries”, published 25 years ago, Cloud and Townsend listed the ever-broadening, socially-expanded opportunities one encounters in life to learn to accept “no” from others that arise as one grows and...
I’ve come to believe through observing many people that no one gets out of childhood without some scars resulting from the perception that they were not loved the way they wanted to be loved by one or more significant people in their lives…or even from...
Having referenced the difference between Woundedness and Brokenness in a previous post on Loneliness and Aloneness, I suppose I should explain the difference for those who do not know. Here is something I came across nearly 20 years ago that helped me understand the...
