Marja Bergen

author, mental health advocate, follower of Christ

Category: Day by Day (page 1 of 33)

My revolutionary life begins – Part 4

IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD . . . It was 1965. I was nineteen years old, a student at Simon Fraser University, when my life became chaotic. I suspected there had been something strange going on with my mind for months—thoughts and experiences I wasn’t able to understand. I was confused, couldn’t make sense […]

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A revolutionary idea – part two

LIVING ROOM JESUS IS FOR ALL FAITHS Perhaps the problem with people today and why it is so hard for them to accept Jesus is that He is thought of in terms too narrow for most people to understand or accept. In the work I do I make the Living Room spiritual mental health groups […]

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My revolutionary ideas

LIVING ROOM Yes some of my ideas – like unconditional love for all people, no matter who they are, where they’re from, and how they worship – are often not accepted. In fact, frowned on by people of my own faith. Yet I believe this approach will lead to a path to world peace. These […]

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No need for shame

A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL  As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. […]

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This message is essential

  The following tells what I’ve been trying to say for a long time but was never able to clearly get it across. I hope this helps the understanding of Living Room’s importance grow: The message of Jesus’s unconditional love is essential for all people who feel rejected by the world. It is the key for emotional healing. Why is it […]

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My podcast – April 28, 9 am

The Heart Behind the Mission Amie (Ah-‘mie) Peacock April 26, 2026 Join us on Tuesday, April 28 and watch Marja’s Story-part 2 on YT I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on what it really looks like to live a life of “Beyond The Conversations.” Our friend Marja Bergen is the living definition of that. Since […]

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Living Room prayer for a suffering world

Photo by Rohingya refugee, Ro Niyamot Ullah HOW LONG, LORD, WILL YOU FORGET THEM? How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on […]

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A message for the child in you

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows […]

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Great is Thy faithfulness

A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are […]

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Joining God in his work

A LIVING ROOM DEVOTIONAL So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; […]

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