I always prayed I'd be a peacemaker. Yet I battled so much hatred and violence, I thought God hadn't heard my prayers. But now, with this writing journey, I see he answered me in his good time.
This essay is profound on so many levels. I admire your bravery in overcoming the horrors of your younger years. You did not reject Jesus or blame God. You are a woman of action and I know your parents are roaring support for you from heaven and rejoicing at the impact you are having on the world!
Wow! I had no idea what became of some of Dave’s family. Your story is heartbreaking and sobering. I always admired your Dad’s ministry and written works. To know his dear daughter went through all this is moving and disturbing at the same time. I’m so glad that your love for Jesus survived all of this. May your heartbreak and tears be wiped away totally. I’m so glad you have such a dear, treasured family to bless you these days. God has His very strange ways with us indeed. I’m struggling with Him due to some issues and it’s hard to understand the ways in which He works. But, I soldier on as I’m too far gone with Jesus to give up now. Thankfully, I’ve got a great wife, / awesome teenagers, and some great friends who are dear believers in Jesus’s, who are very real in their struggles too. We lean on one another quite a lot these days. God bless you and your unique ministry in trying to wake people up. How dark the worlds become since I was a kid 50 years ago! What a world of contrasts. Still so much beauty and lovely people here and there, and then the darkness encroaching in. 🙏🏻
Wow, thank you so much for your comment. Life is a struggle! With public figures, there's always what people are and then there's what lies beneath. I hope my words can help others, as you say. Honesty brings freedom, too. None of us are perfect. I still have questions, as you do! God bless.
My Dad was an atheist. If I’d grown up with a Dad like yours I might have ended up as smart, talented, intelligent, enterprising, creative as you and able to write the most incredible, truthful and insightful essays as you do. I am proud to say I am a Christian, not just a Jesus follower. Jesus told us they hated Him first and we would be hated to. Majority of people know who you believe in when you state you are a Christian. I always remember years ago starting a job and the woman who would become my work colleague made the statement “Alan (my hubby now) has lowered his standards going out with you” stunned at her comment I couldn’t speak, in the next breath she said “Well your a Christian aren’t you”. Psalm 23 is my all time favourite. It was the Psalm that took the blindfold off my eyes. Hang in there Sister. Might not be long before we get to meet.
Thank you ♥️. I look for ard to meeting many of my readers! I am working on publishing a piece about what I mean when I say a follower of Jesus as I think it needs more explanation. I have many things to write about still. If only there were more hours in the day and night!
Karen, you are so inspiring. I read all of this. It is like a different world with abusive men. I never experienced that but I know many here in the US women that have had abusive boyfriends.
Your stories are always so detailed and compelling, so understandable.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in Maryland for many years and that was awful. Just the environment and there was a lot of abusive boys. I do not know why I think of that but I think the abusive behavior starts very young.
My youngest daughter, I do not know if she is abused. I have been banned from seeing her and her children and certainly her husband will have nothing to do with me.
Oh wow, I'm so sorry you are kept from your daughter. So much heartache. People don't talk about it and they should more. It should not be kept in shameful silence. God bless you! ♥️
May you continue to have many blessings in your life. Thank you for sharing so bravely. Much respect for enduring what you have, transmuting it, and passing on to others; like opening the self defense school for women.
Another beautiful essay. Ironically heading to Slovenia next week - Lake Bled… and I live in London. And I am learning Krav Maga. And my birthday is on June 6th, I remember reading yours is too? Life works in strange ways…
Oh my goodness Karen--what you endured is frightenin'--tryin' ta imagine being married to someone vowed ta love & protect you---who nearly killed ya... how ya must have woken up each mornin' in fear--an' later fear fer yer little one--surely if something happened to you... No wonder you can so understand Princess Latifah an' her imprisonment (I pray for her--what a heartbreakin' story!--that is if she yet lives...)--You too were imprisoned and tortured, differently in degree-- but still it was nothing less than that--thank goodness/thank god. Oh and betrayed (by husband(s), men in faraway lands, and a Jordanian diplomat. And yet you are not bitter and your life-lived shows a wisdom and compassion both innate an' something, too, that deepened, perhaps, after your own experiences.
As fer yer "ex," I think those with hearts of ice kin read fear...they feed on it... That is how I imagine these men, raised in a faith or ideology where their wives and children are somehow looked upon as owned possessions, not hearts & minds & souls. I fear that those who are of this belief system do have hearts of ice--all you shared is certainly chilling.
Your words describe your experience so vividly. I see how you awakened "into yourself" as there is something divine in the force to live, to thrive, to value ourselves enough to find a way forward out of the prison cell...the darkness. The light always in you, simply managed to shine strong enough to let yourself escape, an' live, and finally thrive--with your own family in spite of trials 'n tribulations, yet with a heart room enough to always help so many others. I love it that ya teach young girls ta be strong (with the boxing) and share their voices (via the writing) an' give back to yer readers with pieces that are so thoughtful, moving, and understanding.
I have been listenin' ta interviews with SRA victims, speaking out, many helping others who went through what they did. Many people will be lucky enough never to have experience real trauma--like yours, like that of the women in Egypt or Dubai, and like those who suffered under cults or SRA.
Meanwhile, much of the world cheers for Hamas (even while you and others have shared the real-life stories of people who have lived in that culture). Meanwhile the world has declared fatwah on Israel. Meanwhile the useless idiots (on campus, on substack) refuse to hear stories like you share--an' some I share too (see below). They do not realize they are invitin' in the cold blooded whose hearts are indeed of ice--the men that would kill even their own wives and children. Kinda like a society of Caligulas.
THANK YOU an' BLESS YOU Karen--you speak up for voices that go unheard. You understand when so many, SO so many do not. Their prison is the arena of consensus--they refuse to look beyond the gates let alone escape as you did!
Meantimes, this one I did might resonate a mite with ya too--
If nothin' else, Francisco Gil-White (linked in my postin') has some very insightful interviews if ya got a bit've time ta hear him. (He warns us that Iran will take over if Israel falls... it's a fair warnin')
I'll bet!--I hope there's relief ya got it down "in print" tho'--eloquently an' meanin'-FULLY too --I think we all do a bit've self healin' too with our stories an' life journeys once we've thought'em over an' have written about them... an' yer velly welcome Karen, appreciation back yer way!
Thank you, Karen, for this important share of your story into awareness. Thank you for the courage you expressed in your recovery and sharing it. You have filled in some blanks I had around Hamas. And how the anti-female rhetoric and cants are extant in the Koran.
Wow. that was flabbergasting. I have read and own several of your father's books. I receive the Berean Call emails. I was surprised when I realized you are the daughter of Dave Hunt. You have suffered so much. I grew up in a home with a brutal, hateful father. He claimed to be an Atheist. He beat my mother up many times and was a terrible adulterer. He threatened his children regularly with beatings or death. Once he tried to choke one of my sisters to death. She thought she was going to be killed. He hated us. I think your parents did not protect you as they should have. The LORD bless you.
No, they didn't, that's true. It's sad but as I said, they weren't perfect and were bound by their own strict rules that they'd been taught as children, too.
So many people suffer in silence. I'm so sorry for what you and your mother and siblings went through at the hands of your father. No child should have to suffer like that. That's why I decided to speak out.
Thank you for sharing your horrific experience. You have incredible inner strength. Your husband was obviously a very sick man. I suspect he used or was drawn to an ideology that he could use for his personal gain. I don't think Christianity is bad. It's the humans that use it for evil purposes.
I came across this video of Sheikha Latifa last year, and was disturbed by her story. I must have tried to find more information on her and her country, because all of a sudden all these U-tube shorts of her half-sister Sheikha Mahra popped up. I was fascinated looking at all the short videos of Princess Mahra. The voice over hailed her as the most beautiful Princess ever. She is somewhat pretty, albeit overweight, with too much make-up,
and nice hair. When I actively looked for more shorts of Princess Mahra, a whole bunch of look alike, overweight, gaudy women popped up in alluring outfits and poses. I concluded that men in that region of the world are turned on by fat women who look like hookers. Then I got even more interested in the two princesses, Latifa and Mahra, and their father Al Maktoun, and read that his wife, the Princess of Jordan, ran away to England with their two kids. OMG, I felt like I am reading pieces of a melodrama and scratched only the surface of what there is to know about this powerful man and his family. I was interested for a while, but by now had forgotten about it, until I read your article.
Words escape me to add to the chorus but the world could be better if a lot of people would read this.
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read it and listen to it, dont forget the videos by Mosab Yousef & the Princess of Dubai.
This essay is profound on so many levels. I admire your bravery in overcoming the horrors of your younger years. You did not reject Jesus or blame God. You are a woman of action and I know your parents are roaring support for you from heaven and rejoicing at the impact you are having on the world!
Thank you 🙏
Wow! I had no idea what became of some of Dave’s family. Your story is heartbreaking and sobering. I always admired your Dad’s ministry and written works. To know his dear daughter went through all this is moving and disturbing at the same time. I’m so glad that your love for Jesus survived all of this. May your heartbreak and tears be wiped away totally. I’m so glad you have such a dear, treasured family to bless you these days. God has His very strange ways with us indeed. I’m struggling with Him due to some issues and it’s hard to understand the ways in which He works. But, I soldier on as I’m too far gone with Jesus to give up now. Thankfully, I’ve got a great wife, / awesome teenagers, and some great friends who are dear believers in Jesus’s, who are very real in their struggles too. We lean on one another quite a lot these days. God bless you and your unique ministry in trying to wake people up. How dark the worlds become since I was a kid 50 years ago! What a world of contrasts. Still so much beauty and lovely people here and there, and then the darkness encroaching in. 🙏🏻
Wow, thank you so much for your comment. Life is a struggle! With public figures, there's always what people are and then there's what lies beneath. I hope my words can help others, as you say. Honesty brings freedom, too. None of us are perfect. I still have questions, as you do! God bless.
My Dad was an atheist. If I’d grown up with a Dad like yours I might have ended up as smart, talented, intelligent, enterprising, creative as you and able to write the most incredible, truthful and insightful essays as you do. I am proud to say I am a Christian, not just a Jesus follower. Jesus told us they hated Him first and we would be hated to. Majority of people know who you believe in when you state you are a Christian. I always remember years ago starting a job and the woman who would become my work colleague made the statement “Alan (my hubby now) has lowered his standards going out with you” stunned at her comment I couldn’t speak, in the next breath she said “Well your a Christian aren’t you”. Psalm 23 is my all time favourite. It was the Psalm that took the blindfold off my eyes. Hang in there Sister. Might not be long before we get to meet.
Thank you ♥️. I look for ard to meeting many of my readers! I am working on publishing a piece about what I mean when I say a follower of Jesus as I think it needs more explanation. I have many things to write about still. If only there were more hours in the day and night!
I have no words, except to say thank you for sharing this.🙏
Thank you 🙏 God bless.
Karen, you are so inspiring. I read all of this. It is like a different world with abusive men. I never experienced that but I know many here in the US women that have had abusive boyfriends.
Your stories are always so detailed and compelling, so understandable.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in Maryland for many years and that was awful. Just the environment and there was a lot of abusive boys. I do not know why I think of that but I think the abusive behavior starts very young.
My youngest daughter, I do not know if she is abused. I have been banned from seeing her and her children and certainly her husband will have nothing to do with me.
I am so very happy and proud to know you.
Oh wow, I'm so sorry you are kept from your daughter. So much heartache. People don't talk about it and they should more. It should not be kept in shameful silence. God bless you! ♥️
May you continue to have many blessings in your life. Thank you for sharing so bravely. Much respect for enduring what you have, transmuting it, and passing on to others; like opening the self defense school for women.
Thank you. 🙏
Another beautiful essay. Ironically heading to Slovenia next week - Lake Bled… and I live in London. And I am learning Krav Maga. And my birthday is on June 6th, I remember reading yours is too? Life works in strange ways…
Wow that's amazing. Yes my birthday is June 6. I hope to go back in the Spring. My daughter will be at Lake Bled next week!
Ha! I’ll keep an eye out for a woman with three young blond boys
Oh my goodness Karen--what you endured is frightenin'--tryin' ta imagine being married to someone vowed ta love & protect you---who nearly killed ya... how ya must have woken up each mornin' in fear--an' later fear fer yer little one--surely if something happened to you... No wonder you can so understand Princess Latifah an' her imprisonment (I pray for her--what a heartbreakin' story!--that is if she yet lives...)--You too were imprisoned and tortured, differently in degree-- but still it was nothing less than that--thank goodness/thank god. Oh and betrayed (by husband(s), men in faraway lands, and a Jordanian diplomat. And yet you are not bitter and your life-lived shows a wisdom and compassion both innate an' something, too, that deepened, perhaps, after your own experiences.
As fer yer "ex," I think those with hearts of ice kin read fear...they feed on it... That is how I imagine these men, raised in a faith or ideology where their wives and children are somehow looked upon as owned possessions, not hearts & minds & souls. I fear that those who are of this belief system do have hearts of ice--all you shared is certainly chilling.
Your words describe your experience so vividly. I see how you awakened "into yourself" as there is something divine in the force to live, to thrive, to value ourselves enough to find a way forward out of the prison cell...the darkness. The light always in you, simply managed to shine strong enough to let yourself escape, an' live, and finally thrive--with your own family in spite of trials 'n tribulations, yet with a heart room enough to always help so many others. I love it that ya teach young girls ta be strong (with the boxing) and share their voices (via the writing) an' give back to yer readers with pieces that are so thoughtful, moving, and understanding.
I have been listenin' ta interviews with SRA victims, speaking out, many helping others who went through what they did. Many people will be lucky enough never to have experience real trauma--like yours, like that of the women in Egypt or Dubai, and like those who suffered under cults or SRA.
Meanwhile, much of the world cheers for Hamas (even while you and others have shared the real-life stories of people who have lived in that culture). Meanwhile the world has declared fatwah on Israel. Meanwhile the useless idiots (on campus, on substack) refuse to hear stories like you share--an' some I share too (see below). They do not realize they are invitin' in the cold blooded whose hearts are indeed of ice--the men that would kill even their own wives and children. Kinda like a society of Caligulas.
THANK YOU an' BLESS YOU Karen--you speak up for voices that go unheard. You understand when so many, SO so many do not. Their prison is the arena of consensus--they refuse to look beyond the gates let alone escape as you did!
Meantimes, this one I did might resonate a mite with ya too--
https://thcsofdaisymoses.substack.com/p/if-israel-falls-we-are-next
If nothin' else, Francisco Gil-White (linked in my postin') has some very insightful interviews if ya got a bit've time ta hear him. (He warns us that Iran will take over if Israel falls... it's a fair warnin')
It's hard to stomach what's happening. Thanks for your always insightful comments. This essay truly wore.me.out writing it!
I'll bet!--I hope there's relief ya got it down "in print" tho'--eloquently an' meanin'-FULLY too --I think we all do a bit've self healin' too with our stories an' life journeys once we've thought'em over an' have written about them... an' yer velly welcome Karen, appreciation back yer way!
♥️
Thank you, Karen, for this important share of your story into awareness. Thank you for the courage you expressed in your recovery and sharing it. You have filled in some blanks I had around Hamas. And how the anti-female rhetoric and cants are extant in the Koran.
Thank you so much. Glad I could bring some clairty. 🙏
Wow. that was flabbergasting. I have read and own several of your father's books. I receive the Berean Call emails. I was surprised when I realized you are the daughter of Dave Hunt. You have suffered so much. I grew up in a home with a brutal, hateful father. He claimed to be an Atheist. He beat my mother up many times and was a terrible adulterer. He threatened his children regularly with beatings or death. Once he tried to choke one of my sisters to death. She thought she was going to be killed. He hated us. I think your parents did not protect you as they should have. The LORD bless you.
No, they didn't, that's true. It's sad but as I said, they weren't perfect and were bound by their own strict rules that they'd been taught as children, too.
So many people suffer in silence. I'm so sorry for what you and your mother and siblings went through at the hands of your father. No child should have to suffer like that. That's why I decided to speak out.
I also have no words. Thank you for this very important sharing of such difficult events in your life. God is making so much good her
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Ugh. Sent accidentally twice. 🤪
Trying to say that God is taking this and making good, especially as we share it, multiplying your words, and His Glory. 🙏🏼🤍🙏🏼🤍
Thank you for sharing your horrific experience. You have incredible inner strength. Your husband was obviously a very sick man. I suspect he used or was drawn to an ideology that he could use for his personal gain. I don't think Christianity is bad. It's the humans that use it for evil purposes.
Beautiful and tragic and then beautiful again and still tragic. Thank you for writing this.
Thank you for not burying your talents.
It's what we've been...
https://voza0db.substack.com/p/morons-just-dont-get-it-83b
And no CHANGE in sight!
I came across this video of Sheikha Latifa last year, and was disturbed by her story. I must have tried to find more information on her and her country, because all of a sudden all these U-tube shorts of her half-sister Sheikha Mahra popped up. I was fascinated looking at all the short videos of Princess Mahra. The voice over hailed her as the most beautiful Princess ever. She is somewhat pretty, albeit overweight, with too much make-up,
and nice hair. When I actively looked for more shorts of Princess Mahra, a whole bunch of look alike, overweight, gaudy women popped up in alluring outfits and poses. I concluded that men in that region of the world are turned on by fat women who look like hookers. Then I got even more interested in the two princesses, Latifa and Mahra, and their father Al Maktoun, and read that his wife, the Princess of Jordan, ran away to England with their two kids. OMG, I felt like I am reading pieces of a melodrama and scratched only the surface of what there is to know about this powerful man and his family. I was interested for a while, but by now had forgotten about it, until I read your article.