Hi Pam, Keep seeking him and praying over the entrepreneurial door he may open to you. Perhaps it will be in a place where your deepest joy connects with people’s needs.
For me, it was a business with combined my interests and passions, education and training with people’s actual needs, but I would have had the courage or confidence to embark on it had the idea not come to me in prayer.

Thanks so much. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve begun to come close to “logically managing my feelings,” but it is surely the better and more integrated way, than falling prey to them, and being driven by them, as I was in the painful episode I refer to in this blog.

But defiance is about loving one’s enemy. It’s about not letting the evil grow and spread. It’s drawing that line in the sand saying “no further”. Loving someone enough to not let the devil take them any further along the path away from God.

And you are absolutely right, many times that line in the sand involves the setting of boundaries. Saying “I love you enough to no longer place myself in the role of victim. Without a victim, you can no longer be a victimizer.” It’s really hard because these women tend to pick the same guys over and over again. But teaching them the ability to say “no” in love is important. “No, I’m no longer going to allow you to do evil by removing myself from the situation”.

As for me, I have been a victim of a violent crime and have come to be reconciled with it. I have grown and have become a better person for it :). I am more careful, but I don’t let it or any other evil dominate my life. I remove myself from any situation that is evil in nature and being a thinker type rather than a feeler, I logically manage my feelings around it and do my best to close the chapter on it.