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Dear God, In today’s reading, we get to hear Luke’s story about the Road to Emmaus, when Jesus appeared to two disciples and pulls the same stunt that I do on my kids when I want the real skinny: he plays stupid. The men are on their way to Emmaus when Jesus approaches them and…

As I was reading Monsignor Massimo Camisasca’s reflection on last Friday’s reading, the miracle of the loaves and fish, this Italian priest seems to underscore the very premise Pope Gregory preached: that it is in active participation of love that we receive grace, and the hope of the Resurrection. Writes Monsignor Camisasca: The experience of…

Father Thomas Keating writes an interesting article about how we might come to be able to recognize Jesus in our lives. From his book, “The Mystery of Christ”: Like the disciples of Emmaus, we, too, have our own ideas of Jesus Christ, his message and his church. We, too, are conditioned by our upbringing, early…

Have you ever wondered what you’d look like with extreme brain shrinkage? Douglas Cootey of The Splintered Mind gives us a visual …

Thanks once more to Lilit Marcus who is a fantastic story finder for me! Now that Larry has a job I’m recruiting readers who can forward me current events related to depression and bipolar disorder. Since I never seem to be able to read the dang paper before Eric disposes of it. (Remember, major clutter…

Check out the discussion thread “Diagnosis” started by Beyond Blue Member Doxieman (we know him on this blog as Larry Parker) regarding what diagnoses we all have. I laughed when I started reading which initials we can refer to ourselves as, because it’s like reading the DSM-IV for Dummies. That’s meant as a compliment. I…

I turned 37 in February. Eric turns 39 in two months. But we already feel like we’re smack in the middle of a midlife crisis. Well, maybe that’s not the right word for it. Not a crisis—just a, how do you put it—vortex of time. We don’t have any time for anything. And not even…

I was taken aback by these statistics that I just read in Johns Hopkins Depression and Anxiety Health Alert: that a quarter of all adults have symptoms of at least one mental disorder each year, and nearly half of all Americans suffer from a mental disorder at some point in their lifetime. Here is what…

Fortunately there are abundant resources on the Internet to help guide a person who hears a loved one talk about suicide, or who is suicidal himself. I found the following material at Mayo Clinic’s page on suicide. Visit their site by clicking here, or print this out so that you have it handy the next…

Another way of taming the negative persons inside our head is to simply “shake off the dirt,” which is also an affirming and supportive discussion thread at Group Beyond Blue on Beliefnet’s Community. Beyond Blue Member DawnAndrea06777 starts off the discussion with this: Some of us have decided to work at shaking “dirt” off of…
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