Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.