Tags: depression, encouragement, hope, Purpose
5 Ways to Understand & Help Your Depressed Friend
Since I’ve been there, I have a few ideas of what might help your depressed friend. Depression is never something we want to walk through, but it’s here among us and there is something we can do. I’d like to share 5 ways to understand and help your depressed friend. Here are a few ways to understand your friend a little better and offer her a little hope on the hard days. Knowing and expressing these thoughts will take it from, “I just don’t get it” to “I don’t get it, but I want to.” 5 Ways to Understand & Help
5 Verses to Find Your Faith Again
I pulled the covers up over my head and closed my eyes tightly. My mind embraced a new day, but my heart rejected the new tomorrow because I knew the things that made my heart feel heavy yesterday were still there. I can still feel the heaviness, the worry, the waiting and wondering if things would work out. The unknown outcomes caused anxiety. Questions, and heartaches from a fresh new wave of trials make us want to go to sleep and dream of a better tomorrow. A day when life is good again and our hearts don’t hurt so much.
Calling All Perfectionists
Living With Purpose: Week 8 Sometimes we wait for the circumstances to be perfect before we take a leap of faith. I’m not a good waiter. I like things to happen fast. Once I get my mind made up, I like to make an action plan and leap with all my might. Sometimes it’s good. It means I act in faith and let God work out the details as I go. Other times, it’s complete foolishness. I jump ahead of God and get into deep water that I cannot navigate on my own, and then I wonder why I feel
Ever Feel Lonely?
Ever Feel Lonely? I entered the room of women excited to make new friends. While they laughed about old memories and giggled over inside jokes, there I stood on the outside looking in – alone. I wanted to laugh and join in the fun, but I didn’t know the inside stories and didn’t understand the jokes that caused them to explode into simultaneous laughter. So there I stood with a smile plastered on my face, and an empty sinking feeling filling up my entire chest. I was surrounded by people, but felt completely alone. Have you ever been there? You
Living With Purpose: Week 5
Week 1: Silent Seasons Week 2: Seasons of Blessings Week 3: Seasons to Stop Week 4: Seasons of Uncertainty And now for Week 5: Seasons When You Feel Shattered As a teenage girl I knew what it felt like to feel shattered. On the first day of school, a boy who I really liked, asked me to go to the biggest event of the school year. One day after lunch, he asked if we could talk. Right there in the middle of the lunch room he ripped out my heart and told me we would have more fun with
Living With Purpose – Week 2
Welcome to the new series Living With Purpose in Every Season! If you missed last week’s post you can find it in the link below. Living With Purpose – Week 1: Silent Seasons And now for Week 2! Living With Purpose – Week 2: Sweet Seasons of Blessing Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. James 1:17 (ESV) Have you ever had a season in your life when things actually worked out right? Maybe it was a dream vacation,
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