Choose the Darkness or the Light, Not Both

If you are living a challenging life: always struggling, never at peace, seeming to find conflict at every turn, dealing with painful emotions… would you say that you are living in the light or in the dark? I’m sure that the answer is clear (not in the “clear as day” sort of clear, but rather in the “answer is obvious” sort of way).

I Am a Defenseless Son of God

Why would I claim to be a defenseless son of God? Who, in fact, would want to be defenseless? Perhaps one who knew that they did not need defense. How’s that? Well, think about it. If there were nothing that could hurt you, then what would you need defense for?

What Is Wrong With Me?

Is there? Is there something wrong with me? What is it? What is it that is wrong with me? Do I even know what it is that is wrong with me? If I do not know what is wrong with me, how can I ever hope to correct what is wrong with me?

Depression, With or Without God?

In my mid teens I lost God. And in my mid teens I grew steadily into worse and worse depression. This mood disorder actually became my God, in a way, you could say. Because it became my obsession. It ruled my life. I began to think of myself as broken. “I am the one with depression,” I would tell myself every day.