Hi. I have been experiencing “functional freeze” over here. Long story short, I have more thoughts and emotions swimming around in me than I have the clarity (or energy) to communicate coherently. Instead of stopping and walking away, I’ve just kept trying to pound it out. The past few posts weren’t where I wanted them to be when I hit “publish” but I pressed on. I know myself and sometimes if I stop and walk away, I have trouble restarting because I overthink and overcomplicate everything. Still, I have overthought and overcomplicated everything.
Meanwhile, my newsfeed has been serving up a steady diet of voices that have triggered in me a sense of terror that Christians all across the country are going to blindly trust a predator to lead us forward because his patterns are so common in a lot of spiritual communities.
So, that said, I have renamed and revised the October 2nd chapter. I wish I could make it more story-driven instead of sharing statements about the lived experiences that have informed this chapter. I just don’t have the capacity. But I hope what you will hear is the voice of someone who knows what I’m looking at when I’m in the presence of a dangerous person. I’m far from gullible and misguided (as I have been called over social media). I wish I was wrong, but I know I’m not.
Here is the audio for Predators & Prey. The written version is located here.
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