by Terry_Powell | Jan 7, 2021 | Christian Living in the Trenches, Depression and Faith
A SIMPLE YET PROFOUND INSIGHT FOR GOAL-SETTING AND RESOLUTIONS It is my conviction that we often fail to fulfill our New Year’s resolutions and other life goals because we don’t set those goals low enough. Yes, you read correctly. An enemy of succeeding...
by Terry_Powell | Dec 22, 2020 | Depression and Faith
What I Tell Myself When I Don’t Feel “Merry” At Christmas “People more often need to be reminded than instructed.” Samuel Johnson I head a true story about a man who, because of an error during surgery, had the wrong part of his brain...
by Terry_Powell | Dec 13, 2020 | Depression and Faith |
True Stories of Service in the Midst of Suffering “Your greatest area of usefulness to God may stem from your greatest area of pain.” Ron Dunn Thursday, December 3, 2020, 6:00 a.m. MORNING GLOOM I awake with lethargy of mind, body, and spirit. I plod...
by Terry_Powell | Dec 7, 2020 | Depression and Faith |
How I Learned An Outrageously Encouraging Perspective on Failure If failure is a good teacher, I had a golden learning opportunity the week of my older son’s seventh birthday. The incident occurred 39 years ago, but the details are etched forever in my memory....
by Terry_Powell | Dec 2, 2020 | Depression and Faith
A True Story of Caregiving for a Husband with Chronic Pain Debbie Smith received the phone call that no one wants to get. Her husband, Mark, had been in an auto crash. The other driver, going 60 miles per hour, had abruptly veered into Mark’s lane, ramming the...