Family

I never truly grasped how heavy it all was until I finally spoke it out loud, and watched someone else cry for the pain I had learned to live with in silence. This is my story. And it is the story of many women who have learned to suffer in silence — first as children,…

An Introduction to a Story of Restoration For most of my life, I did not have the language to explain what I was experiencing. I only knew that something inside of me felt fractured—like a part of my identity had been misplaced somewhere along the road from childhood to adulthood. Looking back now, I can…

Entering the Battlefield—Battle: Don’t Plan Another Funeral Chapter 20, Part C – Spiritual Warfare Blueprint for Your Family: A Bible Study Workbook with Testimonies By Cyndi Foster (Beauty for Ashes, Inc, 2025, pp. 183–184) My daily local radio broadcast was concluding as a man knocks on my office door. The Holy Spirit urges me to…

“Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.” — Proverbs 22:6 NLT “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.” — Proverbs 1:8-9 NIV In…

Our daughter had gotten into trouble for something—though the exact reason escapes me now. What I do remember is her dramatic outburst after being punished. She looked up at me and shouted, “I hate you!” In her eyes, I was the enemy for taking away her TV time. It’s a classic reaction of blaming the…