‘What are you doing here?’ is God’s invitation for us to explore our lives. To discover the reasons for what we do. It’s an empowering question to ask yourself and others. I knew where he would be. In that dark, dingy cave of a place, hunched over a machine and […]
Faith & Mental Health
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There are none so blind as those who will not see. Only when we realize that we have been chasing after false promises will our sight return. We see that we have been conned and we are now in a prison of our own making. One spring afternoon, I was […]
If you were to open my mother’s Bible, the first thing you would notice would be the handwritten notes and Bible verses for mental health that kept her secure in God. Dig a little further and you would come across underlined verses, cut-out sections from the church newsletter, and notes […]
She was so hungry for approval that some people called her a Klingon. She would cling on to your every word and do just about anything for you. She wanted to know that she had worth, value and that she was good. Then there was this guy who read the […]
Learn to heal “character bruises” and dis-empower unbearable feelings. 6 proactive steps to move past childhood wounds and embrace God’s truth. I’ve been allergic to eggs all my life. At times I have even ended up in a hospital when I have inadvertently eaten eggs. One time as a child […]
While many believe ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’ is in the Bible, true biblical self-care is actually about treating your body as an act of worship. In Jesus’ words, they were like ‘manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it’s all rotting bones and […]
Pressure within is building, and you might feel like you’re carrying a heavy burden alone. How do you release bottled-up emotions without destroying precious relationships? Recently I have gone back to old-school ways of writing. I have picked up a pen and some paper and written my first draft […]
Life can be hard, and maybe even harsh at times, but in the end, something beautiful and good can emerge from the struggle. Love is like that. It was an old climbing rose that hadn’t been well cared for. When I started to do some gardening work on an old […]
When going through Mental Health struggles, you have to give yourself permission to receive, especially from God. Every Tuesday morning, I travel to a garden in a small rural area called Clevedon. I leave early to beat rush hour traffic but also to get a few moments on the top […]
After years of teaching high school in downtown Los Angeles, my wife accepted a job four hours away. On top of my daily stressors of dealing with students and colleagues and deadlines at the school, I now moved to a tiny studio apartment, commuted to see my wife on weekends, and […]