healing - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com Striving for biblical literacy and hope in a broken world. Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:53:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mandygunter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-MG-logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 healing - MandyGunter.com https://mandygunter.com 32 32 227822906 The Forgotten Healing – Limping Not Skipping Towards Eternity https://mandygunter.com/the-forgotten-healing-limping-not-skipping-towards-eternity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-forgotten-healing-limping-not-skipping-towards-eternity Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:56:42 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=728 I had a distinctly unpleasant conversation with a person recently. I suspect if you also talk with human beings, you have those interactions from time to time too. 😉 As any good overthinker would do, I replayed the conversation in my head repeatedly, trying to make better sense of it....

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]]> 728 Broken Seashells and Shattered Reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:00:19 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=483 Brokenness. It’s a word I have carried in my chest for several years now. It’s a word I see when I look in the mirror and at the world around me. Sometimes it is all I can see. I close my eyes and imagine shattered pottery, the jagged edges slicing...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/broken-seashells-and-shattered-reflections/feed/ 2 483 Tearing off the Roof https://mandygunter.com/tearing-off-the-roof/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tearing-off-the-roof https://mandygunter.com/tearing-off-the-roof/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:11 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=358 Our kids spend a large portion of their days dancing and singing (read: screaming) along to music playing on YouTube. Something about watching singers on TV makes them feel like they are at, or maybe they are, a fun concert. Their favorites are some phenomenal worship songs. Lyrics that have...

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]]> https://mandygunter.com/tearing-off-the-roof/feed/ 10 358 The Basics of Loving a Traumatized Child https://mandygunter.com/the-basics-of-loving-a-traumatized-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-basics-of-loving-a-traumatized-child Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:07:40 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=312 Childhood and trauma is a sobering paring of words. Events painful enough to cause a wound to the mind and nervous system can rock the strongest adult, but how much more devastating trauma is to a developing child! Statistically, almost every adult in the United States is in some sort...

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]]> 312 Adoption Memories – 6 months home 2015 https://mandygunter.com/adoption-memories-6-months-home-2015/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adoption-memories-6-months-home-2015 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:12:23 +0000 https://mandygunter.com/?p=124 Sanctification Hello, friends! Tomorrow will mark 6 months since Gotcha Day for Little Man!  This is the marker I have been waiting for.  Half a year.  We have survived half a year.  Most experts say by six to twelve months home, we should be settling into some kind of “normal.”...

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