In today’s Seedbed.com Wake Up Call devotional, as we explore the book of Proverbs together, JD Walt directs us to Proverbs 5:21–23 (NIV) For your ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all your paths.The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare...
I visited with a person who is in the midst of what was self- described as a “dark night of the soul” with depression and some health problems. I was reminded of something that I was told years ago by a pastor in a time of “darkness”……He said, “Go into the grave. Die...
At a particularly embattled and exhausting moment in my life, in a hospital emergency room after a brief evaluation by a psychiatric nurse and recommended for admission to a psychiatric unit, I took a brief trip, spiritually and psychologically, to another...
I have facilitated groups or journeyed alongside women with depression since 1998. One of the things I counsel women in depression who come to me is “find a reason to get up every morning” even if you feel like a sleep walker or a zombie. Keep moving!...
I had a call from someone who has struggled with depression for a decade or longer. A couple of times it has taken him to the dark, despairing edge of suicidal ideations. Thankfully, God was always there to bring him back from the precipice of destruction. He had an...
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it.” Kahlil Gibran Truth can be found in lots of places because truth is truth. I have become convinced that depression and anxiety are flip sides of the same...
