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Finding Rest

September 10, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”Matthew 11:28 (NKJV) Last week was Labor Day in the U.S., which is celebrated annually on the first Monday in September and is a creation of the labor movement. Dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers, […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Hope, Mental Health, Recovery Tagged With: co-occurring disorder, Mental Health Network, Rest, UCC, United Church of Christ

Thank God for Grace

July 9, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

“But by the grace of God I am what I am,and his grace to me was not without effect.No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I,but the grace of God that was with me.”1 Corinthians 15:10 In our age of uncertainty, there are many who feel that there is no God. After all, […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Grace & Forgiveness, Recovery Tagged With: Addiction, Grace, Mental Health Network, UCC, United Church of Christ

Is That You God?

March 19, 2018 By Karl Shallowhorn

“Perhaps this is the moment for which you’ve been created.”Esther 4:14 “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”Soren Kierkergaard If only I had known these two things when I was in the depths of my despair in my late adolescence and early adulthood. It was during this period that I […]

Filed Under: Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, Faith, Recovery Tagged With: Addiction, Bipolar, Mental Health Network, Stigma, UCC, United Church of Christ

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