I’m starting to learn that living a life for Jesus is a lot about how well you walk in the valleys. Sometimes we just get stuck—stuck in between the crisis and the turning point where everything is okay. Sometimes we get stuck in the “I’m okay, but not good” point. Sometimes we are confident about…
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Life is tough, and some days it seems like every internal reserve you have is tapped out while the demands and the turmoil continue beating down on you. I’ve been there. Sometimes the weariness and the tension can even lead you to wish you could end it all or make you wonder if it is…
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This is a quiet post… A moment of stillness for those whose hearts are broken… All our hearts have cracks in them; we have each been shattered in different ways. Maybe you’re weeping right now; maybe your heart is frozen in stillness. Perhaps the wounds have long turned to scars, or maybe…
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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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My Story of Depression: From Broken to Beautiful, From Hopeless to Worth It! It all started five years ago, when a twelve-year-old girl entered 7th grade. Little did she know that her whole life would drastically change over the span of four short months. 6th grade was a terrible year for me. I went to…
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“Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure, but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends, but hating socialising. It’s wanting to be alone, but not wanting to be lonely. It’s caring about everything, then caring about nothing. It’s feeling everything at once,…
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What is depression? I describe depression as hopelessness, lovelessness, lack of true joy, confusion, etc… Depression is not a thing in and of itself, but it is a lack of a thing. Just like darkness is the absence of light, depression is the absence of joy, love, hope, and peace. Depression is the opposite of…
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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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We live in a crazy world that has a bad habit of throwing crazy things at us. These crazy things can lead to depression and abuse (whether it is of substances, relationships or yourself.) Because of the time period that we live in, these things abound. They are everywhere in this world, and it’s hard…
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