The following piece was written from the perspective of a person needing care. Have you ever needed care in the way this person did? How would you like to have someone like the Samaritan looking after you? Can you imagine how good it would be to have someone like him—someone so much like Jesus—taking care […]

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LIVING ROOM’S OPEN DOOR When we decide to follow Jesus, we are called to be like him. To do what he would do. To say the kinds of things that he would say. To love as he loved. But how could we possibly emulate a person as remarkable as Jesus? Many of us feel inferior […]

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LIVING ROOM’S OPEN DOOR – In his book, Faith and Mental Health, Harold Koenig, M.D. wrote that mental illness could be viewed as a gift. “It can sensitize the emotionally or mentally ill person to the pain and suffering of others, uniquely equipping them with the insight and ability to help.” Through our own needs […]

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One of the most important ways in which people with mental health challenges can be supported is by hearing of the unconditional love of Jesus and of how he values them, despite the way the world might be treating them. Those for whom life is easier, could never understand that message in the same way. […]

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Happy Thanksgiving Day August 2015 Then [Jesus] said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” Luke 17:19 Luke 17: 11-19 tells the story about ten lepers Jesus healed. He instructed the ten to go and show themselves to the priests. On their way there, they were cleansed. Only one of them, […]

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ONE SUCH AS ME? I’ve been told by someone trying to order my new book off my book page that it looks like you have to pay using PayPal. But it only looks like that!! The cart page is hosted by PayPal, not by me or my website. And you do not have to have […]

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ORDER TODAY ONE SUCH AS ME? is the story of a person with bipolar disorder who was called by God to start a Christian mental health ministry called Living Room. This ministry became a wide spread movement within two or three years of its founding. How did that happen so very quickly? Why was it […]

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GOD’S LOVE This photo was one of a series, taken around 36 years ago on behalf of the Burnaby School Board and Burnaby Now Newspaper. Although the boy could only make guttural sounds when he tried to talk, the girl met him where he was and answered him with similar sounds. She was connecting with […]

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EXAMPLE OF SPIRITUAL FOOD for a person who feels rejected by the world When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan […]

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The PDF for this 48 page booklet is now ready to freely download from https://marjabergen.com/books This booklet includes clear suggestions of how friends, and all who care can, through Jesus, help  those who struggle with their mental health, the lonely, and disabled—the many in our day who have not been able to live a full […]

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