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Women’s, Family, and Recovery Issues

Oh God Be My Rock and My Strength (Five Years Ago Today My Second Divorce Was Finalized)

December 19, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Today marks exactly five years since the divorce decree from my second, fateful marriage of almost eight years was signed and finalized. For weeks I have periodically contemplated (usually while driving) what kind of blog expression this milestone deserves and what I should say or not say. Surely I have formed numerous titles from the tens of thousands of words and stories and reflections and details that have wafted through my mind... At some point recently, I decided that I...

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Insanity, Horses, Vomit and Clocks

December 12, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I’ll bet you are puzzled how any of these things might be linked together in my mind or in a blog piece. Well, here goes. They say, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” This saying has become popular these days and I do think there is a lot of truth to be found it the idea. However, it is only partly true. We must ask ourselves also, “What do we do when...

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Surely There is A Name for “This and That,” and for “Him and Her”…

August 18, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I’m struggling here. And I want and need to express and I want and need to be understood. Coming up with the title of a blog piece can be half the battle, and my mind has meandered over several titles until I came up with the above. On the naming of things… Naming things is one of the most important things we humans do in order to communicate, and naming things (people, places, things, concepts, etc) serves so many important...

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The Mother Sandwich: When a Father Loves His Children More Than He Hates His Mother and Their Mother

June 16, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Fatherhood is not simply a biological condition but it is a spiritual condition inherent since the beginning of time, with numerous applications and overlap, and especially, implications and consequences. This will not be a typical Father’s Day post per se. And let me start here by untangling the title just a bit. Another way to say this would be, “A good father loves his children more than he hates his mother. A good father loves his children more than he...

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When God Speaks

May 29, 2024
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Dreams, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s been some things on my mind tonight as I’ve been working outside and contemplating a situation. I had some worship music on and was in a meditative frame of mind, rolling some matters over and over in my mind as though turning them from various angles. At one point, I had this deep sense of interpretation of part of a spiritual dream I had last Thursday night. Some dreams are simply dreams borne of my own psyche, while others...

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Fear ~ Sadness ~ Loss ~ Lack < JOY > Thriving

January 18, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Pretty much every morning for at least the past ten years I awake to a sense of fear and unease. In some of my writings here I have described and tackled articulating this phenomenon in various ways from various angles. I think of the Cinderella story. Like clockwork, at midnight everything about her magical life is removed and she is stripped down to her base situation....

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A Christmas Gift (to and from) Alabama Jack

December 24, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Norman “Jack” Wright was never a client of mine, per se, but on one of my computer’s three hard drives in my Client’s Folders from between 2012 to 2014 exists a folder named “JACK-ALABAMA.” In memory of Jack, I’d like to make his story part of the great story of Christmas, and gift it to whomever takes time to read this piece. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I hadn’t been living in Decatur, Alabama but maybe several months...

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Welcoming the Newcomer

December 3, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Anyone who has been a visitor at a church knows that there are a variety of ways the family of God approaches and welcomes visitors and newcomers. Over the years when in this position, there have been things that make me feel either like I want to go back, or I want to never go back there again. Today, I simply share some musings and observations about myself and others after returning for a third time to church on a...

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Friendsgiving: The WOKE Virtue-Signaling Protest of the Traditional Family

November 22, 2023
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Linguistics and Language Series, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

The purpose of this piece is to raise awareness about linguistics and how new cultural practices form. It is my hope that if we can recognize the pattern, purpose and means of infiltrating ideologies and values in one specific context, then we can better recognize trending shifts–and that which is behind some innocuous-sounding changes–in other contexts and especially, in the Church. It is not my goal to pass judgement on whether you or someone you know engages in “Friendsgiving” of...

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How Most Girls Think About Their Breasts

November 10, 2023
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Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s an idea (or myth) that keeps circulating around these days that it is normal for young girls to hate their developing bodies during puberty and in particular, their breasts. I’m going to go out on a limb here and boldly declare that I don’t think that I am Abby Normal, and therefore, I’d like to set the record straight (with mitigating caveats) that it is not normal for young girls to hate their developing bodies and in particular, their...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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