A POEM GIVES ME HOPE AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE Despite the condition I was in, the words of Rudyard Kipling’s poem encouraged me. They showed me what I wanted to strive for. Even now, sixty years later, words from it come back to me when I need to be reminded. I didn’t believe in God at […]
Read More.... . . then I am strong. …to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM AND MHPSS Below is one of the many Living Room devotionals I’ve written. I wrote them for people experiencing mental health conditions. Over 250 of spiritual writings like this can be found on the Living Room webpage at https://marjabergen.com/support-groups. They will make valuable additions for all kinds of mental health support meetings. MHPSS […]
Read More...SPIRITUAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT – “ONE SUCH AS ME” tells how I pioneered spiritual mental health support, starting in 2000, speaking and writing extensively for those of the Christian faith. At that time, I introduced them to how their faith can help them overcome mental health problems. The book tells how faith-based peer support groups […]
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL – July 2020 A Pharisee asked Jesus: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your […]
Read More...The story of Joseph in the Bible shows how he became a leader in Egypt where his jealous brothers had sold him into slavery. He ended up saving Egypt from famine. When his brothers came to beg grain from him, not realizing he was their brother, they feared him. But Joseph’s response to them was […]
Read More...A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Isaiah […]
Read More...RELEASING THE PAIN A few months ago, I posted the following devotional on LinkedIn, hoping it would reach some of the Rohingya who are going through such tragic times. I’m hoping that some of the devotionals I’ve written over the past many years, will bring Christ’s message of love to them. I’ve always believed that […]
Read More...PROMOTING LIVING ROOM IN THE WORLD My most recent book, One Such as Me, published in 2024 tells about how I gave birth to the Living Room ministry and the spiritual mental health support it offered. It was a ministry that brought the news of Christ’s unconditional love to those who felt rejected by the […]
Read More...Photo by Ro Niyamot Ullah A Voice from the World’s Largest Rohingya Refugee Camps by Mohammed Rofique Please Don’t Forget Us , I am a displaced Rohingya refugee survivor. For the past 8 years, I have stood beside my community as a CPC Community Para Counselor under the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency MHPSS program, […]
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