Sunday, November 29th, 2009
I’ve been thinking about the rather depressing turn my blog has taken over the last few weeks. It’s not really me. I don’t mope around all day. I’m actually pretty hyper! I have ADD, but I like to call myself vivacious and creative. Euphemisms for sloppy and disorganized are always fun. In fact, usually my [...]
Tags: atypical depression, Christianity, depression, depression and Christians, mental illness, religion
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Today is “To Write Love on Her Arms” Day. While I never had a habit of cutting, I did do it once. It wasn’t for the reasons chronic cutters cut. After a particularly bad week at the church, where Lorraine asked me for the twentieth time why I wasn’t in choir, and the deacons tore [...]
Tags: depression, ministry, To Write Love on Her Arms
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
I confess some sadness here. Trying to dig into my brain to find some of the more humorous memories to share, I started looking through other pastor’s wives’ blogs, hoping something they said would jog my memory. Instead, I found the common theme: depression. It makes me so sad! I don’t even know how to [...]
Tags: Christianity, church, depression, ministry, pastor's wife, pastors' wives, religion
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
I am not sorry I left everything behind. The ministry, the conservatism, the husband. I was not particularly happy in that life. Yet, it was all I knew. It was so scary to pack up and move out, defying everything I had been taught and the culture in which I lived. I lost everything, even [...]
Tags: atheism, Christianity, depression, divorce, loneliness, loss, moving on, Ray Boltz, sadness, separation
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