Dear Friends, In this time of Pandemic, I think it’s important for us to remember that no one has done this before. The check out staff at the grocery store, the nurse checking vitals at the hospital, the town and state leaders making decisions that affect all people, the pastor figuring out online worship, the […]
Voting for Mental
Health in 2020
As I went to the polls in my “Super Tuesday” state of North Carolina, and then watched the flurry of coverage that night and throughout this past week, I have been thinking anew about the importance of mental health voting in 2020. Whenever I go to the polls, I by necessity vote with mental health […]
The Story of the “Crazy” Son : the Prodigal Son through new lenses (Part 2)
Every parent whose son or daughter has left home in distress or run away from home has the same sick and sinking feeling in their hearts. Is she alive? Is someone out there caring for her? Is she dead in a ditch? Is he in a homeless shelter? Or has he found happiness and a […]
Thank God for Grace
“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, […]
The Opposite of Denial
For by grace you have been saved through faith.And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.Ephesians 2:8 When I think back on the course of my life and the fact that I’ve been living with a co-occurring condition of bipolar disorder and addiction for more than 37 years I am […]