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âThatâs how good liars are - setting their lies down in a pool of truth so you dismiss the lie in the middle of the truth surrounding it. Good liars also work really hard to make themselves believe what they are saying. They make conscious decisions to believe the lies they are creating. This is why it is so hard for them to recognize truth if it is something they donât want to believe. âTruthâ ends up being reduced to whatever the liar wants to believe, regardless of its veracity. Liars are just sick, thatâs all, and they need healing like we all do. They need to be made whole instead of dividing themselves up with lies.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âAll I could think of, while I sat alone in this cheap hotel on that ugly bed, was the pink razor that lay on the edge of the bathtub. I wondered how hard it would be to take apart. Our thoughts can create our reality. As I thought through wanting to die rather than hurt Nathan by leaving, and wanting to die rather than misrepresent Christ by being in an affair, the only thing that made sense to me was to kill myself.
Itâs funny what âmaking senseâ means in times when we are deceived, confused, and oppressed by suicidal demons. Suicide really didnât make sense. For a Christian, it spits in the face of the God who made you and gave you another day for a reason that you may or may not see.
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This is a mysterious verse [Matthew 12:43-45] that I donât fully understand, but what seems clear from my experience is that suicide is most likely the name of a demon that torments people and tries to convince them to kill themselves. I am very familiar with this sort of torment, and many times can even sense when someone else is struggling with it. I also know that on that day at the hotel, while I was alone for that little while, I was closer to suicide then than I ever was at age sixteen, or any time after that.
Just as I was about to go get the razor, the phone rang.
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That must be one of Godâs great joys - to call other people who will say yes to him, to help intervene in miraculous ways at just the right moments in other peopleâs lives. Oh, if only we would all listen and obey when he nudges us to do out of the ordinary, loving things.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âLike a wounded animal, I began to expect pain from people. [âŚ] I was always looking for someone to let me down. No matter what goodness was present, I would not trust it.
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Without trust, you cannot receive love. Without the ability to receive love, you will wither away.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âScott was the one cool Christian in junior high. He loved punk rock, skateboarding, and multicolored facial hair. As a fourteen-year-old, know-it-all, loud-mouthed atheist, the only reason I didnât write Scott off completely, like I did every other Christian, was because he didnât back down when I questioned his strange, persistent love for Jesus. He wasnât afraid of all of us making fun of his faith and sobriety. He almost seemed to enjoy it sometimes. He did his fair share of making logical fun of our drunkenness and stupidity as well. So we respected him for that.
When I returned to Mississippi as a Christian, Scott showed up at my momâs house unannounced. I opened the door to his familiar green hair and broad, crooked smirk.
âSo I hear you love Jesus now,â he boasted like he had won a bet. Not even a hello.
I cracked up.
âOkay, okay, you won. Iâm one of you weirdos now,â I answeredâ
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âGod the Father wants us to be free to make our own choice. He will suggest things but never change our minds with arguments or manipulation, God is not a prosecuting attorney trying to win a case. [âŚ] Even if he suggests that is not a wise choice, he will still let me make it because he honors and values my freedom.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âI thought fighting for a person meant to fight the person if you had to. But fighting for someone and fighting someone are two different things.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âI didnât know what it meant to have a loving father I could trust regardless of if I agreed or understood what he was saying. So whenever I didnât understand, I didnât trust.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
ââThe heart doesnât speak in the English language. It speaks in pictures. It often speaks in metaphors.â [âŚ] He [her pastor] also said people in dreams can sometimes represent ideas, concepts, or parts of ourselves we need to pay attention to.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âGod will never contradict himself. If it seems he is contradicting himself, itâs time to be still and press in through more Scriptures, context, and prayer. Discuss it with godly people who love you, and look for God to show you how he is still cohesive.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âChoosing love is letting your yes really mean yes and your no really be no. Itâs making yourself be honest with yourself and with your loved ones by keeping your words and your heart commitments. Itâs choosing to keep loving when your heart tried to deceive you by telling you to run away from your promises once it gets difficult.
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I didnât realize true love honors, values, and desires freedom. Love will honor your freedom to choose, honestly, what you really want. When the choice is destructive, as mine was, love continues to hope, as Eric did, that the beloved, wandering one will make it out alive and the story will turn to glory.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Strum
âBut let me tell you, the effect of a destructive addiction are much harder to deal with than the effort, humility, money, time, and inconvenience of getting help.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
âMy father missed the opportunity to love me in person. I never met him. He was in prison for a while. I remember him sending me a Christmas present one year. I wasnât resentful that he wasnât there. in fact, I wouldâve told you I didnât need a dad. But his absence was significant. I didnât realize the effect as a young girl, but it turns out, it did matter.
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But false realities bring pain.I always felt like a burden. Like I was a weight on others and society - one they wanted to ignore.
I was fatherless. And that seemingly small part of my identity, in many ways, molded an orphan heart in me.â
- The Mystery by Lacey Sturm
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