I used to think sabbath was a day of rest to be observed on Saturday or Sunday (whichever a person chooses) until I moved to North Carolina to help a friend of mine in their spiritual walk. God had me take only a messenger bag of essentials and an extra pair of shoes that were already in my car. I didn’t know how God was going to have me help her but I was down for the journey.
Tag Archives: Holy Spirit
Gaining Ground Against Anxiety, Depression, and Every Day Battles
For much of my life, it felt as though I was at the mercy of whatever life wanted to dish out. Much of the time I viewed life as something that just happened to me. From age nine to twenty-seven, I struggled with depression and anxiety. As a result of many things that happened in my childhood, I transformed from a child that trusted easily to one that was skeptical by default. From skepticism stemmed the paranoia that others wanted to harm me, use me, violate me, etc. In my current awareness, I recognize that the unhealed pains of childhood kept me from always reaching out for help and also receiving help when I was in emotional and spiritual distress. I only began reaching out to others for help a few years ago.
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.
Warrior Letters 