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...
by Terry_Powell | Nov 21, 2020 | Depression and Faith
The recent presidential election in the U. S. was the most polarizing one in history. Strong feelings erupted from people on both sides of the political aisle. Each of us probably holds deep convictions concerning the platform of each major party. But let’s sit...
by Terry_Powell | Nov 17, 2020 | Depression and Faith |
What if I could write only one blog on handling depression, or give just one 15-minute talk on the subject….what would I write or say? Since childhood, I’ve experienced descents into emotional darkness and despair. In His providence, God hasn’t...
