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.
Tag Archives: Hope
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.
Warrior Letters 