LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 205 (November 15, 2008) “The Lord your God is with you,…he will quiet you with his love.” Zephaniah 3:17 Knowing that God loves us and that others love us is so important, and when we’re depressed it becomes even more important. Love comforts us and heals us. I can so identify with […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 204 (November 13, 2008) I’ve been struggling. Struggling with a mild but painful depression that has been bothering me off and on for the past while. I know it’s mainly the result of life stresses – my mom sick, going into a nursing home, emptying her apartment and looking for a doctor […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 203 (November 11, 2008) I’m reading a wonderful book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Mate, a doctor who works in the slums of Vancouver on the Downtown Eastside. If you want to learn more about what it is to live with addiction and how to […]
Read More...In the previous post about getting unstuck from depression I wrote, “what occurred to me is that the greatest and purest source of joy is love – the love we can be assured God has for us and the love our friends and family share with us.” I know this to be very true. As […]
Read More...In the previous post on coping I wrote, “My friends and my church are very important to me though. They’re my support system and I stay in close touch with them.” Throughout this story about me and Living Room you will have read how much I valued my friends – three in particular. I received […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 191 (September 23, 2008) This morning someone going by the name Warrior Princess left a comment on an article I have online right now at canadianchristianity.com. The piece tries to show how mental illnesses are illnesses like any other – diabetes, heart disease, etc. etc. I was trying to educate, to eradicate […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 165 (June 5, 2008) Further gleanings from Don Miller’s Blue Like Jazz: Miller says, “…I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. I think apart from the idea that I am a sinner and God forgives me, this is […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 133 (February 19, 2008) When I was looking after Mom I looked often at this picture which hung on her wall. I had photographed these cosmos flowers a few years ago in the rain and the water droplets make me think of tears. It’s kind of a sad picture, but it’s beautiful […]
Read More...He (God) comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (MSG) We who live with illness and […]
Read More...LIVING ROOM MEMORIES 124 (December 18, 2007) My mom-in-law is doing okay. She had her transfusion in the ER on the weekend. She is weak but in good spirits. On Thursday we’ll take her to the specialist to see what he can do. I’m still into a low grade depression. I can tell because I […]
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