Hope for the Depressed Woman: Week 2 – Breaking the Silence

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Hope for the Depressed Woman: Week 2 – Breaking the Silence

Welcome to Week 2 of Hope for the Depressed Woman. If you missed the first post of this series you can view it here – Week 1: Slow Down. Throughout this series I will share my personal experience with depression and the things I learned along the way. I don’t share this to glorify myself or to give medical or physical advice (I’m not a doctor or counselor), but I share from a deep place of my heart that once ached with feelings that I could not understand. God has freed me from depression and I hope sharing my personal

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Hope for the Depressed Woman: Week 1

I am excited to start a new series this week! For the next few weeks I will be sharing my personal experience with depression. I don’t share this to glorify myself or to give medical or physical advice (I’m not a doctor or counselor), but I share from a deep place of my heart that once ached with feelings that I could not understand. God has freed me from depression and I hope sharing my personal experience will encourage you if you have struggled in this area of life. Depression: Week 1 – SLOW DOWN I hung up the phone

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Sin Hurts – Healing is Optional

The devil is strong, deceitful and on a divisive rampage to destroy. He wants desperately to rip families apart, destroy security, make everything normal seem ridiculous and invade a seemingly happy home, turning it into a place of pain and sin. Sin and pain walk together. There’s no separating them. When sin comes from within your own heart or home it leaves scars, pain, guilt and a slew of baggage. Sin hurts. How does a soul move forward following sin in their own heart or home? 1. Forgiveness – Ask for it. Give it. He will again have compassion on

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When Life Is Falling Apart: Cling to Jesus

There are moments in life that are so devastating there are no words to utter. You see people surround you and their lips are moving, but the words cannot be absorbed. You try to move forward with a normal routine, but the world seems to move in slow motion as you walk in a trance giving your best effort to press on. Life can hurt deeply. It can scar the tender parts of your heart and make you feel like life is completely out of your control. The truth is, it is. Life is not ours to control. Life is

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Expecting Blessings

It is easy to look over someone else’s shoulder and see the ways other people have been blessed. A new car, a great house, a new baby, a good paying job, a great spouse, new things, money, leisure, a healthy church, answered prayer, a dream come true…you name it, the blessings are obvious. Some people seem to expect God to bless them. As I remember the Israelites it seems like they expected the opposite. Although the Promised Land was promised to the Israelites, they wandered around for years complaining and rebelling. I wonder how things might have been different if

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When I Cannot See Tomorrow

When I Cannot See Tomorrow

I can’t see tomorrow. Sometimes it’s exciting. Other times it’s down right terrifying. If I had known about the health issues then I could have prepared for the future. If I had known about the car accident I would have taken a different route. If I had known about my child’s problems at school I would have considered my options. If I had known about this, and if I had known about that before it happened, life would be so much easier. Life is unknown. We can plan, prepare and manipulate our lives, but there will always be things that

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