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A Sensitive Look at Scriptures

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Just a Spoonful of Sugar – Sanctification for the Highly Sensitive Christian

December 31, 2010

I don’t speak for the other 80-some percent of the world, but with highly sensitive people, the Holy Spirit Himself escorts us into and through the most lovely seasons of cleansing. When He does, He is very specific, very effective, and very kind. And it feels so good to get free.

With us highly sensitive types, the Holy Spirit’s way is to address our stuff in manageable, bite-size pieces. One very specific bite at a time. AND the tiny bites are all sweetened with His warm, loving regard and kind patience. It’s like Mary Poppins where “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down… in the most delightful way”.

The post concludes with a deeper look at the scriptural basis for these concepts.

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Highly Sensitive People, Christian Culture, & a Lost Language of Intimacy with God

May 16, 2010

Isn’t it amazing how time can turn everything on its head and send a completely different message? The culture changes, the language changes, and what used to mean one thing comes to mean the complete opposite. I suggest it is the highly sensitive population that’s been most severely affected by this loss of intimacy with God in Christian culture. If you have a history in the church, this just might shift something deep inside you and enrich your relationship with God forever.

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A Story Like You’ve Never Heard – Especially for Highly Sensitive People

April 3, 2010

In honor of Good Friday and Easter, I’ve written a story for you. It starts with my encounter with the emotionally beautiful Holy Spirit a few years ago and then it flashes back to the dawn of humanity. Did you know that when we grasp that God is richly affectionate and deliciously good, the whole religious story shifts into something fascinating and wonderful? Come join me in seeing with new eyes.

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Have You Ever Struggled to Forgive? A Story for Highly Sensitive People

March 24, 2010

It was a time in my life when I had been attempting for months to overcome a tremendous offense and wounding. Like many highly sensitive people I have an obsessive mind about injustices, and this one was a doozy. I was faced with the option of giving up the fight and embracing the feelings, sinking comfortably into them, versus continuing to resist all the compelling outrage and desire for retribution that assaulted me. Then one night I had a vivid dream.

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The Tree That Didn’t Give A Fig – A Story for Christian Highly Sensitive People

December 3, 2009

Have you ever heard that bizarre story about Jesus and the fig tree? If you don’t know the secrets of fig trees, there’s no way you can decipher the lesson in the story.

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