Category Archives: personal testimony

The Hopelessness of Mental Illness

I’ve seemed to have settled down into a blackness that defies all explanation. I’m dodging being hospitalized, and they can’t put me where I don’t want to go. Hopelessness swirls me around and I feel like a bug going down … Continue reading

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Mannequin Logic

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:22 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were … Continue reading

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Give Us This Day, Our Daily Meds

My particular issue is with Bipolar 1, with psychotic features.  I have social anxiety which factors in as well as weird delusions.  The anxiety and delusions are pretty much one and the same.  They are often the things that will … Continue reading

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The Fishbowl and Your Pastor

Having been a senior pastor for three years, and in full-time ministry 20+ years, I have had to adjust to the constant surveillance of my life and my families. To be so visible, was wearying and maybe even demeaning at … Continue reading

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Understanding Bread

I have learned a lot about my Christian walk in the last few years.  Most of it has been gathered from ordinary life experiences.  Like working on a farm, hanging wallpaper, driving too fast in a cornfield (!).  If I set … Continue reading

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