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When In Doubt

June 10, 2019 By Karl Shallowhorn

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 […]

Filed Under: Bipolar Disorder, Recovery, Treatment Tagged With: Anxiety, Balance, Bipolar, depression, doubt, Faith, health, mark 11:24, medication, Mental Health Network, mental illness, new medication, Self-care, Stories, UCC, United Church of Christ, Wellness, wholeness

A Version of Psalm 139 for the Hard Days

June 3, 2019 By Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe

Lately, I’ve been struggling with fatigue. It’s been really hard to find the energy I need to get through the day. Psalm 139 keeps coming to mind. It’s one of my favorite Psalms because it promises that there is no place we can go where God is not already there. For those of us who […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Mental Health, Prayer Tagged With: Anxiety, endurance, fatigue, Fear, hard days, Mental Health Network, Psalm, psalm 139, UCC, United Church of Christ, wholeness

The Shadow of Death

October 29, 2018 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

I thought I knew what I would write about for today’s post. And then, my 3.5 month old daughter entered into a phase of screaming every time we set her down and refusing to nap. And then, a white supremacist killed two African-American people in Kentucky. And then, a neo-Nazi slaughtered eleven Jews in Pittsburgh. […]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health Tagged With: Anxiety, depression, murder, prayer, Psalm 23, terrorism

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