God will use pain to develop you, but He never meant for it to define you. ~ Adriana Hayes CHRONIC HOPE AND UNENDING DECISIONS When you live with a chronic illness, you soon learn that it requires you to make a plethora of unending decisions. When you...
A DEEP LOVE “She held his hand like she never wanted to let him go,” my husband told me quietly one evening. It’d been a tough day. A co-worker whom my husband deeply respected was losing his battle with cancer. He and his wife had stopped by the...
WHAT I’VE SEEN IN THE DARK: A Story of Depression and Faith Audio of Dr. Terry Powell’s testimony at Columbia International University on September 22, 2014. Used with permission. IN THE DARKNESS OF DEPRESSION LIKE FALLING RAIN My tears...
Recently I ran across the following sentences in a status update and, in short, wanted to run over my tablet with the lawnmower: “Sin isn’t very chic to talk about these days. Words like: brokenness, psychological issues, maladjustment, and trauma are way more...
SUICIDAL THOUGHTS I pleaded with him. To no avail, as it turned out. Ronnie * (not his real name) and I were on the patio behind my house. He was a 31-year-old divorcee with two young girls who adored him. Chronically depressed, he had tried a couple...
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