Kathleen Van Engen

Rev. Advocate. Boy mom x3.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

Today my therapist gave me a pep talk that would rival your fav insp. movie scene. A significant moment of affirmed growth from hard inner work. Know this, you don’t have to stay where you are just start where you are. Healing is possible and you are worth it.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

@fairlyspiritual That if you opened the doors to a water tower all of the water would pour out. Also that the defrost button on our family car was some kind of power launch button. My dad pushed it + accelerated at the time same yelling TURBO BOOST! We didn’t catch on until far too old.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Vulnerability at any time, in any person, demands protection. Our response to vulnerable humans exposes who we are.

[National Center on Sexual Exploitation @NCOSE]

Sugar dating apps and campaigns are often targeted toward a young, lower-income audience and puts them in situations where the natural end game is all sorts of manipulation and sexual exploitation.
Learn more about the dangers of sugaring. https://t.co/Mgo13DZQCM

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

Unlike the racial disproportionality of victims (HIGHLY disproportionate), buyers tend to be disproportionally white. They also are ‘generally’ employed and in a higher income bracket. This system MUST be dismantled. #sextraffickingprevention

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

“Trafficking is a symptom of a problem. It is a supply response to a demand problem.” (Valiant Richey)

Deal with the demand. 150 billion dollars/year is paid to traffickers BY buyers. Who are the buyers? It could be your neighbour.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

My sweet middle boy is 6 tmrw and I can’t wait to celebrate him. He’s had 2 lockdown bdays + this year Covid hit our house so another less than ideal celly. But he’s pure joy and he won’t even notice. He’s selfless and kind and if the world were like him there’d be no wars.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

“He will wipe away every tear from our eyes and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain…and He who sits on the throne will make all things new.”  Revelation 21:4

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Jesus was a grief-bearer. He leads the way in the path of sorrow. On that path, you will encounter suffering and loss that will stagger the mind and break the heart. The path of sorrow, our own or another’s, will lead us to the Man of Sorrows who has promised one day that:

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who stood for Christ and against not just Hitler but also the Christendom of his day, penned this benediction from prison: “May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.”

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

It is never helpful to remind one grieving of what they have not lost or of the fact that it could have been worse.  We do not grieve what we have but what we do not have. We compare our loss to the good we had, not to the bad that never happened. The empty space is that – empty.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

We must not despise what God is doing in our day. He is doing what he promised. He is cleaning house. Make no mistake. Christ still walks among the lampstands. In faithfulness, he’s refining the church like gold in a purifying fire so that the dross may surface. He’s dismantling

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

Heal Our Land / Come & Move (feat. Joe L Barnes, Maryanne J. George & Ma... https://t.co/0XlO31H6BO via @YouTube

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

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all the cool kids are doing it. But why does this game bother me so much and yet I still keep going back to it.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

The joy my almost 4 year old has over his Dino bday in a couple of days could heal some division for reeealll. Get yourself around a kids joy if you’re grumpy.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

“By the time Jesus died, most people had deserted him. The church started with 11 remaining disciples and a room full of people who didn’t leave. And that small group was the genesis of the movement that turned the world upside down.” Engage who you’ve got. @cnieuwhof

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

@PattiTheMiller @DSSanger I relate to Jeff. Lol. Lord help our chill.

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

@Jwjhillier 😂 I was checking in families last night on an iPad and then switched to my laptop to add new people. I kept touching my screen to select with no luck. I thought the system had frozen on me. As I more aggressively tapped on the screen it clicked that I was a dummy 🤦🏼‍♀️. #newb

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@WhatsApp @Twitter

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

@piper_frank I could Frank, I could. 😂

[Kathleen Van Engen @kathvanengen]

Ok but for real though. Instagram/FB is essential for creeping in order to get a better idea of who I’m emailing when I’ve never met the person. Am I the only one who does this? #instagramdown #facebookdown #creeperfail