Category Archives: Love

Election, 2016: Let love win

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Rina

Let me start by saying that I didn’t vote for Donald Trump and yesterday was as shocking to me as it was to most of us (I’d also like it noted that I didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, either.)  I … Continue reading →

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The Great Divorce

Posted on November 3, 2016 by Rina

I’ve mentioned that Jon and I have been going to marital counseling, trying to learn how to be kinder, more honest and loving with each other (and ourselves).  Over the last year, progress has been slow and somewhat unsteady and … Continue reading →

Posted in Criticism, Fear, Love, Marriage, PERSONAL | 3 Comments

Pain, the path to freedom

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Rina

“I don’t know how to recover this time. For the first time, everything in me just wants to barricade my heart and say ‘no more. Never again.’ It’s too much. It’s too raw and too honest, too much has passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Daybook, Forgiveness, Friendship, Healing, Inspirational, Love, PERSONAL, Victory Journal | 8 Comments

Faith Unraveled

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Rina

. I thought salvation [meant] having the right opinions about God and that fighting the good fight of faith [required] defending those opinions at all costs.  I was a fundamentalist because my security and self-worth and sense of purpose in … Continue reading →

Posted in Consecration, Daybook, Evangelism, Faith, Love, Perfectionism, PERSONAL, Salvation, Victory Journal | 7 Comments

Finding Joy

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Rina

“I have a scripture verse for you,” Jon says, and tells me a story of The Children of Israel who, during the Feast of Trumpets, are reading the law together.  The people are convicted by what they hear and began … Continue reading →

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Perfect Love

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Rina

. Why didn’t I stop it? The question echos through and around me, wraps itself around my heart and constricts my breath. Why didn’t I stop it? . And yet, I know that sometimes it’s only through the telling of … Continue reading →

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Ragamuffin

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Rina

In the 33 years since I was first ambushed by Jesus, in the literally thousands of hours of prayer and meditation, silence and solitude in those years, I am now utterly convinced that on judgement day the Lord Jesus will … Continue reading →

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