MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS My Story 2007 was a busy year for me: developing the broader Living Room ministry, facilitating my group, helping individuals in crisis. I was also doing the big work of pioneering mental health awareness in the Church through much speaking and writing, which included writing the book, A Firm Place to Stand. […]
Read More...SHARING GOD’S LOVE Part 12 of my story I loved photographing young children at their most natural. Feeling a bit like a child myself, I could relate to them. But competing in camera club competitions was not enough. I wanted to see my pictures published. Many of them were good editorial material. I did find […]
Read More...MY LIVING ROOM DAYS During Living Room days I learned to be a good listener for people in trouble. But I myself also needed friends to whom I could complain about the many emotional problems I struggled with. And there were many. I have often grieved at how I must have come across to supportive […]
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...SUFFERING FOR DOING GOOD Part 11 of my story In Thursday’s message of My Yoke is Easy, I wrote: “The road is not always smooth. In fact, it can be extremely rough at times. We might suffer.” That’s very true. And I must tell you here that I’ve suffered much as I’ve followed Jesus. But […]
Read More...ACCEPTING CHRIST’S CALL Part 10 of my story Every time I want to carry on and tell you the next part of my story something else, more important, comes up that needs to be told. This time, it’s the influence Matthew 11:28-30 had on my life. There’s a good reason why I shared those verses […]
Read More...FAITH AND MENTAL HEALTH Part 9 of my story “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy […]
Read More...Part 9 of my story January 29, 2024 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. Psalm 51:1,17 The story I’ve told you so far might make you feel […]
Read More...FAITH AND MENTAL HEALTH Part 8 of my story January 25, 2024 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” […]
Read More...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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