A tingling force grips the core of my being within my chest. This Cage…. This Cage…. The bars are not rattling or twisting now, but the entire edifice shifts. The metal scrapes across the concrete with the force of movement. This Cage created by years of manipulation and indoctrination and abomination. The Being within, birthed … Continue reading Unraveling: part 5 →

“Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Saviour. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to … Continue reading Unraveling: part 4 →

Today, I would like to tell you the story of the Tower of Babel. The twist? I’ll tell you the story of the Tower of Babel from how I was taught in the Southern Baptist Church in Texas. As a recap, this deconstruction, or as it feels to me as an unraveling, is a modern … Continue reading Unraveling: part 3 →

What is this “unraveling?”  What does it mean?  How long does it take?  Does it hurt? Well….  Hmmm….  Those questions are really good.  And, really difficult to answer. Umm.  Wait — No.  They aren’t difficult to answer.  Actually, they’re easy to answer.  The difficulty arises within you, the reader, and your ability to read with … Continue reading Unraveling: part 2 →

At each pulse of my blinking cursor the unseen Being pounds the cage inside. This cage crafted by instruction and stories and time and rules and shame and fear. This Being began its life many years ago; in fact, it’s been alive-not-yet-birthed for close to 40 years. Dormant for much of of those years, prowling … Continue reading Unraveling: part 1 →