Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So, don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient […]
Treatment
When In Doubt
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.Mark 11:24 I’ve been living with bipolar disorder for a long time. A very long time (over 38 years to be exact). So long ago that what I was prescribed is known as a “first […]
My Prayer Group
I have a story about a group of people who accompany me, Psalm 139 style, through this life. By that, I mean that these are people who accompany me, as God does, in the highs and the lows of life, including during times of depression. This group is my prayer group. My prayer group consists […]
Do you do exorcisms?
I’m often present to preside at baptisms, weddings, and funerals. Often it is for people I haven’t known for long and for people with a wide range of religious beliefs. Once I was at a rehearsal for a wedding. I hadn’t known the family long, but even in the short time we had developed a […]
Twice in the Psych Unit part 2
(part 1 here) I began a suicide note which I worked on constantly until I had what I would call a nervous breakdown (now called a “major depressive episode.”). I began to shake and a thin, plaintiff wail began to well up inside me. With my cousin Jane rubbing my back to soothe me, I […]