overcoming depression – Paperheart Pieces

The journey// My God is God and my God is good

when we go through pain we wonder why. We wonder why God didn’t stop the pain. Was He not able, or did he not love me? I’ve been on that journey.

My Journey to Wholeness: Training my thoughts by thinking of things I enjoy

Its that typical day. You wake up and your mind has a cloud above it. You feel off, demotivated and dread the day ahead. Many factors may be the reason. It may be depression or oppression, an anxious piece of news or a disappointment that has dragged on for years. Whatever it is, you know you have to change your thought polarity, you need to switch to joy and gratitude, but how? I wrestled it for years.

How Can a Loving God allow Suffering

If God is good, why doesn’t He just eliminate suffering?

It’s the question I’ve thought about since a kid, wrestled with as a teenager and lived with throughout the pain I was going through when heavily oppressed and depressed.

And while there are no straightforward answers to this question. Let me humbly offer you three perspectives/realities that have helped me through times of difficulty.

Look How Far You’ve Come: Learning to Celebrate Progress

I was looking at an old drawing of mine, and I suddenly started to really admire it. I asked the Lord in passing ‘ I drew this?’

Waves | Forgiveness

Forgiveness. One of those principles that doesn’t make sense until you choose it. One of the hardest thing to talk about, one of the most counter- intuitive principles ever. But forgiveness is the only way forward. Because without forgiveness, we lock ourself up. We block grace, and if we refuse to let go, slowly weContinue reading “Waves | Forgiveness”