MY PERSPECTIVE – It’s truly amazing what God can do! I wrote the following piece as an introduction to a photo booklet I created, with uplifting psalms that I found in my Bible. I started work on it after talking to someone on the crisis line – something I did quite often during the years […]
Read More...BORED? September 2018 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. […]
Read More...A REASON TO LIVE Part 12 of my story At this point, I must really take you back to a long-ago time in my life—my mid-twenties. I had only been married for a short time and only out of hospital for three or four years. My emotional state was extremely unstable. I suffered much with […]
Read More...PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE November 2018, revised I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 I’ve been reviewing an old blog which was active from 2006 to 2014. 2006 was the year Living Room started. Today http://marjabergen.blogspot.com/ can still be viewed, so many years after the fact. It’s amazing […]
Read More...DISABILITY AS A GIFT 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. […]
Read More...First published in March 2014 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:30-31 Isn’t it great […]
Read More...Here and there I’ve mentioned a new book that will soon be launched online. Justice for All is a departure from anything else I’ve written. Its aim is to increase the confidence of those who would like to be more self-assured. Fights to overcome injustices have taken place throughout history. This book tells the stories […]
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