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4 Things To Try If You Feel Melancholy
Christian Living | Depression | Mental Health

4 Things To Try If You Feel Melancholy

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…

Love Your Enemies… Even If You Don’t Think You Have Any
Christian Living | Marriage | Parenting

Love Your Enemies… Even If You Don’t Think You Have Any

“Love your enemies.”-Matthew 5:44(NIV) Clearly, Jesus was not talking about me. His audience must have been the “thousands of years ago brutal mob who was known to occasionally throw stones and needed some serious behavioral modification.” Not me. I don’t have any enemies! At least, I don’t think so… I’m a suburban housewife with four…

It’s Time to Put Away Our Laundry
Christian Living

It’s Time to Put Away Our Laundry

Like the clothes we drape over our bed railing, needing to be put away or dealt with, sometimes there are things in our lives we’ve allowed to hang around far too long. Negative thought patterns, old perceptions and wounds, even certain relationships that have worn out their welcome need to be hung up or tossed out. We can do it through the grace of Jesus.