Tag: pain

• The ultimate dentist: a modern day parable

  

  The ultimate dentist: a modern day parable After years of not having dental insurance or having it but not having the copay or having both but also having a myriad of excuses that canceled out me having what I needed… sigh. I FINALLY went to the dentist, who promptly told me that I needed 11 […]

  Great Joy

  August 19, 2022

  A Wise Woman Once Said

  A Wise Woman Once Said, dentist, God, healing, hurt, pain, parable, process, pulling teeth, trust the process, under construction, uprooting

• Healing

  

  Folks talk quite a bit about triggers and trigger responses. This is what I envision when I hear those words. Trauma. Trauma response. Triggers. I see needles lost in haystacks. Stick pins dropped into the carpet, with me on my knees rubbing my hands along the carpet pile trying to find it before I step […]

  Great Joy

  May 27, 2022

  My Poetry

  healing, micro poems, My Poetry, needle in a haystack, pain, poem, poems, trauma, triggers, wholeness

• Acknowledge the Feeling to Access the Healing

  

  A word to the broken-hearted: It’s okay to be sad about what you have let go of and left behind in your journey forward. I know. I know. The super saints among us make it feel like when the change starts to come that all you’ll feel is joy, and all you’ll want to do […]

  Great Joy

  December 20, 2021

  Exhortation

  a life in holiness, a real time change, a time to mourn, cast your cares, feelings, growing up in grace, healing, honest Christianity, Jesus Christ, pain, seasons, transformation, transitions