Mental Health Meets Faith
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, […]
Recently, I have hit a sweet spot in my life. I said this in my last post and I will say it again. I am facing the exact same set of circumstances. The same challenges, the same complications, the same questions, the same job, the same ministry, the same relationships and the same family dynamic. But I am looking at everything through a new lens. It has been a long, grueling and gradual process. There […]
Lately, God has been busy doing so much work in my heart. On the outside, my external circumstances don’t look much different. On the inside, God has given me fresh vision and fresh perspective. My joy, faith and expectancy levels are on the rise and growing by the day. God has brought about a restoration of hope in my life. Hope is crucial for us as lovers of Jesus. Hebrews 6:19 tells us, “[Now] we […]
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds […]