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The Ugliness of Self-Pity
14 “Yet I curse the day I was born! May no one celebrate the day of my birth. 15 I curse the messenger who told my father, “Good news—you have a son!” 16 Let him be destroyed like the cities … Continue...
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A Charlie Brown Kind of a Depression
“This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel...
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Epileptic Christians Rule
“My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.” Psalm 73:26, NLT I think it’s time for me to talk openly about this. For several...
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When Instability Attacks!
I feel good, too good— and it concerns me. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve been down this road before. I guess this is my big issue with Bipolar Disorder (BP); its unpredictability, the way...
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The Rigidity of Evil
I have a heart–but it is broken and crushed. Today I realized that I was sick and very tired of myself. It’s really not disgust, or even loathing. It’s more like a weariness, an exhaustion. I’ve never...
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Leah’s Eyes
Stuck in the convolutions of scripture we can start a great study of Leah and her sister Rachel. These two daughters of Laban have become Jacob’s wives. Now, we may question this polygamy when all we...
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Sporadic Havoc and Painful Places
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9, NLT We are the wounded. What exactly has caused it isn’t always known. A...
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Dancing With Bruises
Bruises seem to be part of life’s package to us. (I think that when the order was set for me, I had a quota of 843 bruises to fulfill.) Some will be serious, others minor. But each are noted, and some...
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Bad Memories (a reblog from 2 years ago)
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave...
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When Instability Attacks!
I feel good, too good— and it concerns me. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve been down this road before. I guess this is my big issue with Bipolar Disorder (BP); its unpredictability, the way...
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The Rigidity of Evil
Today I realized that I was sick and very tired of myself. It’s really not disgust, or even loathing. It’s more like a weariness, an exhaustion. I’ve never felt this way. In a strange way it intrigues...
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A Charlie Brown Kind of a Depression
As we wrestle with our embedded issues, we realize that the battle is in largely inside of us. The last few days have been very hard, and I have a dark presence pressing on me; there is a subsequent...
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The Sinning Servant
God responds to our personal falterings in an amazing way. The prophet Elijah had experienced considerable fireworks in his ministry. One could easily dismiss an incident when he failed big time. “Ahab...
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How Does It Effect You?
There are four areas that chronic depression will effect you. Emotions Thoughts Physical Behavior We need to really visualize the areas in order to understand. This grasp of the facts will not change a...
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Concealed Wounds
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.“ … Continue...
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Afflictions That Heal Us
Today I especially wanted to share a message the David Wilkerson shared on his blog a few years ago. It is probably one of the better messages I’ve read in quite awhile on the issue of pain and...
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The Savor of the Lord
“Since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us when we are being tested.” Hebrews 2:18, (NLT) “Whenever you meet someone who has really suffered; been limited, gone...
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I am Jonah
1 “But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, “O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that …...
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Mundane Atrocities
“Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23 We often carry in our hearts the woundings from other’s actions and sins. We will typically respond in...
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I Come, Clinging
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.” Romans 3:23, NLT I know myself pretty well. I fully understand how dark I can be. I’m nasty and mean, selfish and...
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