“Well, it’s been two weeks…but what about two months from now? Will I make it that far okay? ‘Three months free’, ‘One year free’, sounds impossible…How do I know I’ll even be able to hold out a day more?” It seems like just the other day I wrestled with those words. It’s amazing how quickly…
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You know better than to play with matches. You learned that early on, “Don’t play with matches. Leave them alone.” While the matches themselves don’t really hurt you, they can easily light and start a fire. Yes, the fire is pretty, and it is warm, but you can easily burn yourself, and if you are…
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If you saw a person who was hurting would you help them or hurt them more? If you knew there was someone who felt ashamed, lost, lonely, and was desperately seeking for any hope of acceptance and a second chance, how would you respond? Would you go to them and hit them? Would you scold…
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It is so hard, I know. Those things that chase you around and run your life, the ones you want so badly to break free of. You ache for change. You pray for change. You cry because the fight is hard and the road is long. And here it all is again, the same thoughts,…
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. Sometimes that’s how it all feels. We feel like Humpty Dumpty. And his story seems to match ours. We’re up high, doing well, and then one day it just…
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Yeah, I know how it is. It honestly seems like it won’t end sometimes. It’s all that you can see, all you can hear. It is so overwhelming that it could sweep over you and carry you away, so thick and heavy that it weighs you down and could crush you. It is really hard,…
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January 11th was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. On that day, everyone spoke out against the slavery that is oppressing millions of people today. But what about the day after the 11th? Or the week after? What are we going to be doing a month from now?? It is good to have special times set…
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It’s a new year. It’s a new start. This is when everyone sighs in relief at the blank page in front of them. Then we will all make commitments to do better, to change this, to quit that, because it is January 1st: a blank slate. There are many different milestones we have in our…
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“Where are you Christmas? Why can’t I find you? Why have you gone away? Where is the laughter You used to bring me? Why can’t I hear music play?”* Christmas can be one of the hardest times of the year to be struggling with depression. You look around at all the strings of lights, but…
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Matthew 22:37-40: Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Jesus said that…
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