My husband and I have been parents for almost seven weeks now, to a wonderful baby girl named Leona Joyce. Back in April, I wrote a post about post- and peripartum depression, and the stigma I sensed and feared, as well as some scripture that gave me comfort. I’m only at the very beginning of […]
Reporting Back:
A Different Kind of Armor
Scripture has a funny way of reading us. My first post for the Journey blog was called “Taking the Armor Off,” a reference to the ill-fitting armor Saul tried to get David to wear before his battle with Goliath, and to the different types of ill-fitting armor that we wear in order to try to […]
A sad good-bye becomes a teachable moment
“…then your light shall break forth like the dawn,And your healing shall spring up quickly…”Isa. 58:8 The obituary said the young man had lived with bipolar disorder and had ended his life. It was clear, honest and direct. It was published in the local newspaper for all the world to see. That was a couple […]
