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His Suicide Saved Me
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Beyond Blue
I wanted to share Beyond Blue reader Julia’s comment that she wrote on the message board of my post “Dear God: On Getting the Right View” for two reasons: I was taken aback by her beautiful articulation of what it’s like living with depression, and what faith does for a depressive, but also because I…
Depression: Life With No Filter
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Beyond Blue
Also intriguing was Beyond Blue reader Mary’s comment back on my post “Mother Teresa: My Saint of Darkness and Hope“: I remember once reading in an article that said that people who are depressed have a more realistic picture of the world than those who don’t suffer depression. For some reason, those who don’t suffer…
Dear God: On Perseverance
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Beyond Blue
Dear God, Man oh man is there is a lot of doom and gloom in Luke’s Gospel reading for today (Luke 21:5-19). I thought I had my anxiety under control until I read the part where Jesus said, “All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon…
Ordinary Talent, Extraordinary Perseverance
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Beyond Blue
Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, the British Abolitionist, once wrote that “with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” This EVEN applies to those brave souls who go for it, ALL of it, on “American Idol.” In my prior post, “You Go, Girl!,” I talk about my not-so-great-start in writing. For all of those…
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