Telling the Truth

connecting the dots of my life

Tag: Boundaries

The Shopkeeper | Part 2 of 2

This episode in my life was a smelly, rotting stench in me all the way through school, college and my first years of marriage.  Even after I told my husband about it, I still smelled the old man regularly and without warning.  It was a living, breathing, stinking rotten nightmare.

Despite this, I never wrote it down or reflected on what it reveals about me, much less about my relationship to my parents.  I simply tried to put it away and let the past be the past.  Done.  Over.  Finished.  Time to move on. Read the rest of this entry »

The Shopkeeper | Part 1 of 2

Some things are just plain wrong. No grand theological framework, no appeal to the Bible, and no wisdom of the church or its elders can ever make them right. Read the rest of this entry »