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"I'd crossed a border-Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her."
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"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."
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"Time evolves daily."
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"A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm."
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"The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision."
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"Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new."
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"If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there."
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"A powerful church is capable of transforming our world to God's kingdom standard."
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"Rather than being green with envy, realize that a dramatic difference between the "haves and "have-nots is the "do and "do-nots. If you are seeking positive change and transformation, what can you begin to do?"
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"I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound."
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"God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good."
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"I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add up to zap predatory threads like a Taser gun. I'd stun them. They'd bow to me. I'd let my no echo against the mountains.And better to feel bad for a moment saying no-and stop it-than to get harmed.I would take better care.That small word, no. I'd see its deity."
Boundaries
"My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child."
Identity
"A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains."
Impermanence
"Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to."
Defiance
"I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it."
Strength
"In lovesickness we had found a common language."
Connection
"The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer. The way I felt about being sexually shamed had changed. Now I was angry that others were trying to shame my sexuality in the first place. I flushed-this time not in shame-but in rage."
Empowerment
"I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love."
Independence
"I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw-the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself."
Healing
"Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping."
Courage
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