Where have the Christian gone?
Mental Health ~ To the Bipolar Companion
Many days we are trying to stay above the waters, and those same days you do the same for you while helping us. You are a treasure. You are a rare and precious jewel, and we could not do this without you.
Lost & Found-Caution, Love Lives Here
If it were that simple, this world would look very different. Love is hard friend. It may not be easy to love what others deem ‘unlovable’ and difficult to love.
Their Addiction-My Journey- Not Their Storm
“I just found your daughter trying to hang herself.”
Mental Health ~ The Journal, #7
Yesterday, as my loved one attempted suicide, I had no choice but to finally face my fear and to be strong enough to step forward in faith of the unknown.
Their Addiction-My Journey-Failure
There are two distinct memories of addiction that haunt me to this day. One I have shared, this next one, very few people know. How do we define successful parenting? Often, one looks past the parents and begins grading the successful adult children. It goes that way. The hours we put into teaching wrong and …
Authentic Truths-Fight to Surrender
Surrendering everything is not exactly the picture we see when using the pants on remark. Typically, we imagine becoming a tough "chick,” shoulders back, maybe our nose even a bit pointed up. We roll back those sleeves, and maybe some even 'spit'! It is like a green light that suddenly flashes and we throw down the gas and go!
Authentic Truths-Vision Changes
When in a challenging marriage crisis, a worrisome bout of teenage collision, or our own internal struggle of whatever it may be we pray but we never listen. We cry out, we weep, but we forget to be silent and to hear His love pour into us.
Authentic Truths- Beyond the Door
The barrier I struggled to face was not about the abuse, the abuser, or anything really related to those many years of torture. The barrier was one I erected, one I had to be willing to confront and to tear down- one block at a time- it was- “Jesus, why did you leave me?”
Authentic Truths-My Opinion Does Not Matter
So why is it, at some point we revert to acting more like those old people who constantly accused Jesus back in the day, than we do Jesus? Many things in this world are not of God, this truth is spoken repeatedly in scripture.


