It is amazing how when you are on a journey with the Lord, you discover things about yourself that you really never thought could be an issue. I am not a very "fearful" person. Other than the normal "girly fears" of spiders and creepy crawler type things. I do not (or so I thought) have a lot that I fear. Recently, I realized just how wrong I was... Many of you, who have been long time readers, know my testimony and the sexual abuse that I endured most of my early childhood and then pre/teen years. Well, about 7 or 8 years ago, I laid all of it down, forgave in my heart and began the painful process of healing. Fast forward to this past July... I was contacted by someone from my past who sexually abused me several times. The contact was shocking. I had not spoken to this person in many years. Then, out of the blue, they send me around 25 emails. All of them saying almost the same thing. As if we were "close" in another life from long ago ... yet with a dark under current I … [Read more...]