Joan, one of our readers, submitted the following comments on how abuse works to erode one's personhood. Many of you will identify with her description. *** Someone once asked what it felt like to lose yourself. They said: "Can someone please elaborate on what they think that means and how it feels? Once you lose… Continue reading Losing Yourself in the Fog of Abuse — by Joan
Month: May 2012
Suffering, Abuse, and the Providence of God
God has [hath] "decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor has [hath] fellowship with any therein; nor is violence offered to the will of… Continue reading Suffering, Abuse, and the Providence of God