HONEST WOMEN!

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25 women pouring their hearts out to each other, honestly sharing their stories, opening up to strangers who are just like them, with familiar tales of lives and loves gone topsy turvy. It's a beautiful vision to behold and a wonderful gift to receive...making friends with people who don't lie or cheat or betray or reject or steal or seduce the life out of you. It is powerful testimony to the fruits of being honest with themselves first, so they can be honest with one another.

Tonight the women talked a lot about their fears on the flip side of faith. They are still hanging on to the same old tapes that once replayed the same old mistakes. They shared how they struggle with letting go and letting their higher power take hold of those fears...How difficult it is to fling those fears into the fiery furnace...for the final blaze of glory.

But as I listened to their sharing-as I looked into their eyes...I saw only freedom-from the chains that bound them...from the past that held them, from the self inflicted memories of discontent that made them feel less than they truly are. I saw beautiful, heroic women whose laughter and energy and honest reflection has made a monumental difference in my life...and in the world around them.

They may not know it yet-but they have already won the battles raging within...They are on the road to recovery from the fears that fueled their pain. One day-without warning-they will wake up feeling like they never had a care in the world, because their honest testimonies are the key to unlocking the powerful grip of fear...forever.

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