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How to REALLY Help When Someone is in Crisis (Suffering Deep Pain)
A few hours after I posted my update about my sexual assault yesterday, it hit me that I shouldn’t have just stopped at the whole “it’s hard to know what to say or do” part of the discussion, because just before she went home to Glory after a long battle with cancer, one of my dearest friends (Ruth M.) gave me a list of ideas of things you can do when someone is in crisis / suffering deep pain. I’ve re-ordered things a bit (am I compulsive organizer or WHAT?) to group by genre … and the little subtitles are mine. (So blame me for the weird wording, not Ruth!) But if you have…
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Update on my Sexual Assault
Many, many thanks to all of you who have been so kind to pray for me, reach out with notes and gifts, and just generally remember me as I have spent the past year walking through all of the criminal, civil, and personal (body/soul) issues associated with the sexual assault I experienced returning from one of my women’s events last fall. The criminal investigation has ended and the civil case has settled, so those things are done. And now the real work begins—the heart stuff. Oh, the heart stuff. It is so hard to come back from an assault, but I am trying. And I am getting a lot of help along the…
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The Civil Lawsuit Related to my Sexual Assault has SETTLED!
Before I turn off my laptop for the day, I wanted to let you know that the civil lawsuit related to my sexual assault has SETTLED (!!). Of course the lawyers are still going back and forth with exact wording in the release documents, but our family simply could not be more grateful to God for his provision of wise and compassionate legal representation, and medical / biblical counseling helps as well. Plus, of course, the faithful, constant, prayerful love of our real friends has really carried us through. We are so grateful! And SO happy that I don’t have to make testimony in open court / survive depositions /…
