Tag Archives: Faith

Brain Fog and Simple Approaches

My brain’s been fogging and lagging like a laptop with too many large applications open on it. Though that and waves of fatigue have come, I have found safety in going slow today, not rushing to get so many things done that can wait another day and taking my time while I venture into exploring more of what it is You are leading and directing me to do moment by moment.

Navigating Mental Health

Something that I haven’t been keen on talking about in a broad and open way has been my battle with mental health issues. So often it’s been after the smoke has cleared and I’m back in motion of building and rebuilding things that I begin to talk about it. Things get torn down in the middle of whatever mental crisis I had going on and shame stays over way too long of a visit, so I prolong talking about it. I then would sprinkle it with ‘Jesus-talk’ and then also sanitize it so it wouldn’t be so much of the negative emotions attached to it when I spoke it up. I’ve done it so much to the point that this last time when I went through a deep depression…I couldn’t even be honest with myself about how bad it was actually getting.

God’s Faithfulness in the Midst of a Pandemic, Infertility, and Divorce

My husband and I brought the new year in with our states of exhaustion dragging along behind us. We spent our time in two separate rooms doing two different things. What I did not know was we would soon be spending much more of our time in this way. One day in late February, he came home from work and into the room I used as an office and told me he wanted to talk to me. A sinking feeling grew in the pit of my stomach and it was as if I knew what the conversation was going to be about but I kept hoping for something different.

Dear Dr. Robert Lang,

The diagnosis of having major depression came with a thrust and heaps of affliction on all fronts of my life. Just the night before, I spoke with my sister on the phone. Having given detail of the struggle I was enduring, I looked over a small bridge on Wabash Ave

Dear Jesus,

Photo by Rohit Guntur on Unsplash ***The following is a prayer/letter to Jesus that I was asked to write down. When I wrote it down, I had no intentions on making it public but after writing it, I’m about 54% sure that the Lord was telling me to make it public. Other than spelling errors and names, nothingContinue reading “Dear Jesus,”

Waging War in the Maze of Your Mind

We are told as Christians that we demolish arguments and every claim that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5). But what happens when we try to wage war in the battlefield of our minds but our actions are still rebellious towards God? What happens when we really believe that we are within the will of God in a moment’s time, only to have Holy Spirit correct us and bring to our remembrance the fundamentals of our faith we seemed to have forgotten? One of them being OBEDIENCE.

Living Life Mid-air

Living life walking by faith has been something that I’ve come to realize is like a big ball of fear with an awesome adventure inside of it. Kind of like those Wonder Balls I always wanted as a child but wasn’t allowed to have except maybe once. Though with the Wonder Ball, I enjoyed chocolate enough that I didn’t mind the hollowed out spherical contraption in which this mysterious prize was in, it wasn’t the reason why I wanted it. I wanted the toy inside of the candy.