One tough moment after another can bring you to the question, ‘Does God hate me’? But I want to know more, so I sit with those at the coal face and grow in my knowing. No one knows coal like a coal miner. I could go to a scientist and […]
Faith & Mental Health
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We want God to answer our prayer our way, but there is a larger story going on, so we wait to see the way God answers prayer. Most weekends, when my children were young, I made buns for lunch. First, I would make the bread dough in a breadmaker, then […]
When you’ve hit the brick wall, the question may arise: Why was I even born? But over time, new depth may come through. A new birth may evolve. Quick answer: Asking “Why was I even born?” is a cry of soul pain, not a lack of faith. Job, Jeremiah […]
We can get angry to the point where we want to curse the day we were born, but being held in our anger allows us to go through and not around the pain. Quick answer: In Job 3, Job breaks seven days of silence by cursing the day he […]
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Your past does not define you. In this moment you can own what has been, turn your gaze back toward God, and receive the grace of the One who knows you completely and forgives you completely. What choices of […]
God, I need a miracle, but perhaps I need something more, and that is what God offers me and you. Something of depth and hope. Quick answer: When life falls apart, it is natural to cry out, “God, I need a miracle.” God does still do miracles, but in mental […]
Words tumble through our thinking to be a soliloquy, but you can change what you meditate on Day and Night when you change the song. You probably won’t hear this word spoken today, this week, or even this month. Soliloquy. But you will hear a soliloquy today, and you will […]
There is a comfort zone in the familiar, but there is a calling to step out of the boat and find a little something to stand on. There’s always a call to step out of the boat. The other day I was cleaning some items off a pinboard and came […]
People say you need boundaries, but what do you want to protect? When you know your ‘YES,’ you will be able to express your ‘NO.’ This website is founded on the word ‘Yes,’ but in order for the Yes to be realized ‘No’ has been said multiple times. I have recently […]
Quick answer: In Job 2:10, Job asks, “Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad?” Faith that lasts doesn’t demand only blessing. It grows by knowing God more deeply in both the good seasons and the hard ones, trusting that we are fully […]