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
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
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
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
Motherhood: It’s Not a Competition
You see her in the super market, perfect hair, fresh make-up, kids dressed to perfection, and a matching diaper bag and car seat. Surely that adorable bag cost a small fortune. She must have an amazing husband too. He probably makes a lot of money and she can buy anything she wants. It’s not fair. Who has time to get herself looking like a supermodel to go grocery shopping? And those shoes her kids were wearing, they looked brand new. Does she even allow them to play outside? Feeling totally invisible next to her, I swiftly pass by hoping she
The Secret Place
by Micah Maddox There is a place deep inside, No man will ever see. It holds the issues of my life. It reveals the real me. I want it to be pure and clean. I want it to be right. Everyday I have a choice, Another chance to see the light. Some days are filled with big mistakes. I let darkness invade. The inner place deep inside, Quickly becomes afraid. Fear and guilt weigh me down. They become my identity. I never intend to take that route, But somehow it overwhelms me. I’m learning more everyday, How to give up
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