All I want for Christmas is a miracle and a way back to life
I’m sorry Jesus.  I really messed up bad this time.  I let my flesh and mind fail me.  I sought something in this world that would seem to offer relief for my depression and obsessive mind and it set me on a free fall.  I’ve repeated this cycle so many times that I’m so sick of my failures.  I don’t understand why I can’t ask for help when I get depressed.  I shut out my

Addiction stinks!
This picture pretty much describes how I feel right now.  How could I get this low in life?  I’m all tied up in knots with anxiety and fear of the consequences of my decisions and actions. How did I get to this point in life?  I let a depression get bad and drive my thinking into the ground.  When I let depression go untreated then my flesh automatically crysÂ

hiatus
So the blog went awol for a while or better yet my mind went awol for awol.  My mind does this with me from time to time.  I have bipolar disorder and it loves to go south and send me into these terrible depressions where I feel like doing nothing.  It’s all I can do to get out of bed and accomplish something during the day.  That’s what happened it was all could do to get up and go to work for a couple

Doug’s message – a High View of God’s Love
Here are some key teaching points: True love find itself in expression. “No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.” 1 John 4:12(NLT) “God is love.” 1 John 4:8 (NLT) God is abounding in love DEFINITION – abound — 1 : to be present in la

DO NOT be anxious!
I’m trying hard this week to practice what I preach and teach.  I tell my mom when she says that it’s her job to worry that there are two words before worry in the scriptures – do not.  This week I’m trying to practice Phil 4:6.  I should be very anxious that my recovery house wants to possibly ask me to leave a week from Sunday if I do not find a job.  Apparently some of them still live i