Shannon Woodward: Mother’s Day From An Infertile Mother’s Perspective

    This article is being repeated for the fifth year in a row.  Shannon Woodward addresses a topic that I believe we should all try and be sensitive to.  If you are a pastor or have input to your pastor this article can be very beneficial.  Shannon’s bio is found at the end of [...]

Shannon Woodward: Mother’s Day From An Infertile Woman’s Perspective

This article is being repeated for the fourth year in a row.  Shannon Woodward addresses a topic that I believe we should all try and be sensitive to.  If you are a pastor or have input to your pastor this article can be very beneficial.  Shannon’s bio is found at the end of the article.  [...]

Shannon Woodward:Mother’s Day From An Infertile Woman’s Perspective

This article is being repeated for the third year in a row.  Shannon Woodward addresses a topic that I believe we should all try and be sensitive to.  If you are a pastor or have input to your pastor this article can be very beneficial.  Shannon’s bio is found at the end of the article.  [...]

Some Times You Just Gotta Laugh

Be  sure to check out Chato’s web site  HERE.  Allan

Mother’s Day from an infertile woman’s perspective- Shannon Woodward

This is an article I ran last August but bears repeating.  May 6, 2009  Allan Shannon has written an excellent book on this topic which you can learn more about on her web site which is listed immediately after this article.  I pray this would reach the person(s)  that need to read these words.  This [...]

The Greatest Of These Is Love

NAMI has just released a comprehensive report on the state of our public mental health system in the United States.  It is a very sobering report and I pray that this trend can change, even in these difficult times our nation finds itself in the midst of. As Christians our hope is in God.  He [...]

Two Steps Forward And One Step Back

It took me many years to get it when it came to recovering from a mental illness.  I saw progress as a graph.  Each day the graph would show some amount of progress in my recovery.  Anything else was not acceptable. I tend to be a very black and white person.  No room for other [...]

Motherhood Interrupted

A friend made me aware of this story and I knew this was a topic that needed to be addressed on this blog.  I had never thought the topic of abortion was something that could fit in on a blog dealing with mental illness. Reading this article made me aware of the ramifications of an [...]

Ruth Graham Fights Church Silence On Depression

    UPDATE!!! It came to my attention that the remainder of the article that I had linked to vanished and folks were not able to read the entire article.  I have found the article in its entirety and am posting it here.  It’s an awesome story.  I am running this as a new article [...]

Words

Words have power.  More power than we might imagine.  Many of us have felt their sting as well meaning and some not so well meaning people have weighed in about mental illness in our lives. Words also have the power to encourage and offer hope.  We use words to communicate the Gospel.  We use them [...]