Do you ever feel melancholy? Google defines melancholy this way, “a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.” As someone who struggles with depression, I feel melancholy a lot. And that’s where today found me. I felt sad and lethargic for no apparent reason. This should be a joyful time in my life. My mom…
I’m a mess. Between my oldest son leaving for the army and his younger brother graduating high school, it seems like all I do is cry. Life transitions are hard. Like, really hard. Whether you have a graduate or are starting a new job, life transitions impact your life in more ways than one. No…
Depression and faith… can they even go together? Are you really a Christian if the joy of the Lord that’s supposed to fill your heart and soul is crowded out by feelings of dread and despair? My answer is yes. Yes, depression and faith can go together. Yes, you can be a Christian woman and…
Have you ever had a bunch of stuff go wrong, all at the same time, and wondered why God let it happen? When things go wrong, you may even get angry at God. When Things Go Wrong… Like for instance, my grandma was diagnosed with leukemia in February. We decided to make the trip to…
I walked into the new year full of hopes and dreams. I had big goals and plans for how I would accomplish them. And then the new year started. Nothing went according to my best laid plan. First, a sweet friend had a stroke, and I ended up taking over for her at work. Now,…
Today is my birthday. Every year on my birthday I look back on my life. I reflect on where I’ve been and where I am. This year, I’m finding that harder than normal (this is my third blog post attempt). I think it’s because this year it isn’t about me. The person I am this…
I missed my step goal today. Two days after I made my resolution to get 5K steps each day I landed in bed with 4,347. I woke up that day with a migraine, so I started off behind. By the time my head stopped hurting I was playing catchup while trying not to overdue it…
It’s that time of year again. Everyone is talking about plans for the upcoming new year. Resolutions and goals. Choosing one word or a Scripture to guide their year. All of it revolving around the calendar turning over on midnight December 31st. Now, I love tradition as much as the next gal, but I don’t…
I smoked a cigarette yesterday for the first time in 15 years. And it felt good. Well, right up until I had to tell my husband what I did. Then the guilt and shame came crashing in.
This summer I have been pretty short fused when it comes to my children. I work from home, so during the school year I have eight hours a day all to myself. That’s eight hours of quiet time. Eight hours where I decide how to spend my time. Queue the end of the school year…
I was born with retinoblastoma. So was my son. It’s a rare type of cancer where tumors grow on the retina of your eye. If it’s left untreated, the tumors can travel down the optic nerve into the brain, causing death. Thus, we both lost our right eyes before our first birthdays and have prosthetics….
We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (ESV) If you’re anything like me, when you read the words, “Living In Light of the Gospel” you think about sharing your faith. You think about all the lost people of the world who need to know Jesus, but I’m coming to find that it means…
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