Mental Health Meets Faith
I recently went through a season of my life when I cannot read enough about hope. I couldn’t hear enough sermons on hope…what hope in God looks like, how it operates in my life and how I can experience it. When faced with circumstances that seem hopeless, it is a good time to dig your heels into the hope that God offers to the best of your ability and then allow the Holy Spirit to […]
Months ago, I had an epiphany while I was sitting on my couch eating my dinner. I had just gotten home from work and settled down in my empty house. I started to reflect on some difficult life stuff. Unasked for and uninvited, some painful memories intruded my thoughts and I immediately felt a sharp sting of pain and discouragement. I think we can all agree that there are certain things we go through in […]
I am a person that loves to rest. I love taking bubble baths and naps and curling up with a book on the couch. I recently took a long break from several undertakings to rest and do some healthy self-evaluation. I am realizing though that just because I’m not doing anything doesn’t mean I’m truly at rest. I have realized a tendency that I have. Generally speaking, when I force myself to slow down, my […]
The Middle. Have you ever heard the song “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World? The chorus goes: It just takes some time. Little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride. Everything, everything will be just fine. Everything, everything will be alright. I, recently, am just coming out of a season of feeling terribly stuck in the middle. Maybe you can relate. Not where you were, but not where you want to be. Maybe you […]
Recently, on my way to work, I began to pray in great faith for my future. I’m in another season of transition. Over the next few months, I will be changing jobs and living situations. As of right now, everything is completely up in the air and I have no sense of where I’ll end up. This is a combination of frightening and exciting. But I have been dreaming, dreaming, dreaming through the process. I […]
Does anyone out there like pain? I know that I sure don’t. You know what I like? Comfort. Ease. Luxury. I like the idea of me in a beach chair, reclined on a beautiful secluded island, sipping an iced cinnamon dolce latte with the warm sun beating down on me. I like the seasons in life that feel easy, when things just seem to click, everything just seems too function with minimal effort and strength […]
O God, my heart is steadfast {with confident faith}; I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul. Awake, harp and lyre; I will awaken the dawn! (Ps. 108:1-2) According to dictionary.com, the word dawn signifies the first appearance of daylight, the beginning or the rise of anything or to begin to open or develop. We use the terms night and darkness to figuratively refer to periods of suffering and difficulty in our […]
The other day I was reading in the book of Zechariah, chapter 9, in a passage where the Lord declares judgement on the enemies of Israel. As I was reading, these words that God spoke concerning His people Israel jumped off the page: As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, prisoners of hope; even now I announce […]
Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!” So Ahab went to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel and bowed low to the ground and prayed with his face between his knees. Then he said to his servant, “Go and look out towards sea.” The servant went and looked, then returned to Elijah and said, “I didn’t see […]
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see…It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called Him to leave Home and go to another land that God would give Him as an inheritance. He went without knowing where He was going. And even when He reached the land God promised Him, he lived there by faith-for he was like a foreigner, […]