When worries and anxieties pile up it feels like pressure is building. This is the stress balloon! Can we handle the pressure? Or will we break?
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Milo & Me: Learning to Trust Again
I’ve trusted liberally. I’ve trusted by making excuses when someone sinned against me, and by assuming the best of them when they hurt me and my loved ones. And I’ve been betrayed.
Emotional Health In A Heart-Sick World, Part 2
Jesus said that he came to heal the sick. Sometimes we don’t know that we are sick until the symptoms crop up.
Faith in Times of Insecurity (Is That You, ‘Rona?)
I don’t want to get COVID-19. Some people I know have caught it by now, and although sometimes it’s mild, sometimes it sounds truly terrible. But I’m also afraid of the possibility – and the responsibility – of passing it to anyone who has a terrible time with it. So I’m questioning everything. Was I […]
My Monsters Are Big But My God is Bigger
The world feels like a dream, or maybe a movie, as first schools shut down, then large group gatherings, then the libraries and DMVs. Next restaurants close their doors, and permitted gatherings again shrink in size. Until finally we are ordered to “stay at home.” I can feel the stress seeping through social media. Worry […]