Thoughts on defeating depression
Plenty of people want to save the money, the social embarrassment, and avoid getting treated for depression. It is hard to admit you are depressed. It is hard to go seek help for it – to admit to a...
View ArticlePoem – Hardened
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart to make God’s glory shine. A man was born blind so that God’s glory may be made manifest. The difficulties in your life are there on purpose, to make you really take notice...
View ArticleComfort food?
Why don’t we skip the food part of “comfort food” to go straight into comfort? Part of the problem is that we have equated everything with food. If there’s a party, there’s food. If there’s grief,...
View ArticleAddiction and trusting in God
I wrestle with addiction. Thankfully I’m no longer enslaved to pot. I also used to smoke clove cigarettes. But addiction can take many forms. Addiction is any time that we feel helpless to control our...
View ArticleBeing reminded of who you are.
I once had to remind my Mom of how strong she was. I’m not sure what was going on – either Dad had separated from her, moving in with his 80 year old Mom, or she had cancer. It all blurred together...
View ArticleHeartburn cure
I had bad heartburn and talked to my nutritionist. He told me that the problem is that our stomachs produce LESS acid as we get older, not more. The solution is to add more acid instead of take...
View ArticlePoem – voices in your head
Those voices in your head that say “You’re no good, – you aren’t doing enough, – why even try?” Don’t let them in. They are door-to-door salesman standing on your front step banging on the door ringing...
View ArticleMenopause hacks
These are things that helped me get through to menopause. Think of it as transforming from a caterpillar to a butterfly – the old rules don’t work anymore. Everything is changing, and it gives you a...
View ArticleMental slavery
“It is a curious but little known fact that the Israelites enslaved in Egypt for four hundred years never once asked to go free. Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible do they say to Pharaoh or Moses or God,...
View ArticlePoem – your body is a sanctuary
Your body is a sanctuary, a home to a piece of the light of God. Just like a regular home, you have to maintain it. Just like a mosque or a church or a synagogue or a temple, you want to make sure it...
View ArticlePoem – becoming sober
Becoming sober is like doing surgery on yourself. Everything hurts, because the things that you used to run away from the pain are the very things you know you can’t do anymore. So you have to sit down...
View ArticleIn sickness and in health
African healer Credo Mutwa in “Shaking out the Spirits: a Psychotherapist’s Entry into the Healing Mysteries of Global Shamanism” by Bradford Keeney says this about disease: “Every one of us exists in...
View ArticlePoem – experts try
Experts, masters in their field are only experts after years of trying and failing but not failing to try again. Be an expert. Make every day a new day to make something, something better, something...
View ArticlePoem – go walk yourself
How interesting that people will buy a dog because they want to go for a walk. They know that the dog has to be walked at least once a day and so they have to take him out. They get the dog as an...
View ArticleQuotes about making art
“Artists paint apples because they have the urge to paint apples. And if people like the art, that’s a bonus.” – Jeanne-Claude (partner of Christo) ——————— “You should paint pictures because you want...
View ArticleEverything starts in darkness – a Christmas observation
Here’s Mary. She’s been told that she is going to bring forth the Messiah, the Savior, the King. This has been promised to her by an angel. But things aren’t looking so good. Her fiancé almost left her...
View ArticlePoem – What gets you up?
What gets you up? You have to have a reason for getting up in the morning and for making it through the day. Children? Work? Art? What brings you joy? Do that. What does the world need? Do that. Can...
View ArticleOn geodes and cracks and God
Leonard Cohen says – “There is a crack in everything. / That’s how the light gets in.” The Gospel tells us – A man who was deaf and had a speech impediment was brought there by a person who begged...
View ArticlePoem – snow day
Remember that feeling you have when you look outside and everything is covered by snow? It was forecasted but they didn’t know exactly when it would happen – what time of day, or even if this day or...
View ArticleMemory map exercise
Here is an exercise to dig down deep. Choose a picture of a place where you spent a lot of time as a child. Perhaps this was your old family home that you moved from. Or a family friend’s house. Or...
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