by Terry_Powell | Aug 26, 2019 | Depression and Faith
As you start this blog, please be aware that it concerns much more than stories about our physical ailments and the meds we take for those maladies. Life-Saving Medicines Back in 2003, a throbbing pain in my right calf, not caused by injury, prompted a doctor...
by Terry_Powell | Aug 15, 2019 | Depression and Faith
When you see or hear the words “holy place,” what pops into your mind? The “Holy of Holies” in the Old Testament tabernacle? The proposed spot in Jerusalem where Jesus died on the cross? The wailing wall by the Temple mount, with hundreds of...
by Terry_Powell | Aug 4, 2019 | Depression and Faith |
Five minutes. That’s all it took for her to change my life. It was what she did and said to start her first-period English class, early in the Fall of my senior year of high school. Before I explain, I need to set the stage for that life-altering incident, which...
by Terry_Powell | Jul 28, 2019 | Depression and Faith |
What did one of us say, or what happened, that caused anger to boil over between us? Why did we spit verbal venom on one another that day? Why did the argument degenerate into a fist fight? Honestly, I can’t remember why. Scene 1 Spring 1968 Dennis, my...
by Terry_Powell | Jul 19, 2019 | Depression and Faith
Scene 1 6-7 Years Ago It happened out of the blue, as I strolled through the den. An unseen force suddenly penetrated my chest cavity, got a vise-grip on my heart, and squeezed forcibly until tears began flooding down my cheeks. No, it wasn’t a heart...
