anxiety/fear/depression
No, Not Today
Don’t creep in my mind, no, no, not today. Fickle heart and Satan, you’d best be on your way. You are taking my acts of service, making them drudgery instead. My joy to do what I love, and turning it on it’s head. My excitement to serve now bitterness, a labor of love turned to…
The God of Our Trials
Is there something you didn’t ask for? Something you wish just wasn’t so? But the God of heaven has chosen on you a trial to bestow? We all have felt it at some point the stretching and the fear. The anxious heart that pounds and the unexpected event appear. We want out, we want relief…
Lament and Live
Why am I downcast in my soul, why is my heart in turmoil? What is this nagging ache I feel, through my day and in my toil? It feels like a cloud hovers over and underneath my weakened smile. I hide a mix of emotions, a confusing, disorienting pile. Maybe this lasts a day or…
Weaned off Worry
Do you carry around a burden? a decision looming perhaps? The inevitable unknown that may fall into your lap? Are there things to do next week or pains you anticipate ahead? A fear of something tomorrow a scary future that you dread? Anxiety like a rocking chair back and forth it goes. It comes upon…
Not Afraid of Bad News
Something difficult happened, you cannot get it off your mind. Something difficult is happening, and your peace and stillness are hard to find. Something difficult will happen tomorrow, knots in your stomach begin to unfold. I profess with my mouth that I trust you God, but functionally your promises I don’t hold. The panic underneath…
