Day 1: July 7, 2017 I have been holding back my words. It has been months since I have written a blog post – since before we found out Austin’s cancer had relapsed. I wrote in the “waiting,” but then when we knew, I just couldn’t bring myself to write. I couldn’t put anything into… Continue reading The Writing Challenge
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?” ~David, Psalm 42:5a I can’t do this anymore. I want to quit. I want to quit. I want to quit. My mind races with these self-defeating, negative thoughts. It’s like a mantra, a bad theme song that won’t go… Continue reading The Struggle is Real
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it.’” Isaiah 30:21a How do you live after only surviving? During an exceptionally trying time in my friend’s life, I asked her how she was holding up. “Surviving,” she had said, but this wasn’t a way she wanted… Continue reading After Surviving
“But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.’” Isaiah 43:1 She was only 14, just a couple months shy of her fifteenth birthday. Hundreds of miles away from home,… Continue reading My Struggle With Depression
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