Posted in 12 steps, addiction, anger, bipolar disorder, bloggers, blogging, blogs, books, depression, family, kay redfield jamison, mania, mental health, mental illness, mothers, music, psychiatrists, recovery, relationships, tagged 12 steps, addiction, bipolar disorder, bloggers, blogging, blogs, book review, books, depression, family, kay redfield jamison, mania, mental health, mental illness, mothers, music, musicians, psychiatrist, rage, recovery, relationships on February 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »
My family was away this weekend, so I took the opportunity to catch up on some reading around the blogosphere. I was particularly drawn to reading within the world of Bipolar. Here is some of the best of what I found.
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Project Mommy examines some of the stigma attached to such mental illnesses as Bipolar in the [...]
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Posted in 12 steps, Bible, Church, God, Jesus, Lord, Savior, academia, americus, baptism, christians, civil rights, clarence jordan, communism, community, faith, family, farm, florence jordan, georgia, hell, jesus christ, kkk, mabel england, martin england, mission, missionaries, money, prayer, preachers, racism, sin, surrender, tagged 12 steps, academia, americus, baptism, christians, Church, civil rights, clarence jordan, communism, community, family, farm, florence jordan, georgia, hell, Jesus, jesus christ, kkk, Lord, mabel england, martin england, mission, missionary, prayer, preachers, racism, Savior, sin, sinner, surrender on January 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
When I was 7, I came down the aisle of a small Baptist church to accept Jesus into my heart. I did my ABCs. I Admitted I was a sinner. I Believed Jesus died to save me from my sin. I Confessed that Jesus was my personal Lord and Savior. I was certainly sincere [...]
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Posted in 12 steps, Bible, Church, God, Jesus, Liberals, bloggers, blogging, blogs, classical music, compassion, conservatives, country music, culture, democrats, encouragement, environmentalism, fellowship, guilt, homosexuality, huckabee, humor, humour, iPods, jews, men, mike huckabee, parody, pistol pete, politics, presidential candidates, religion, republicans, satire, sex, sexuality, songs, theology, tagged 12 steps, Bible, bill clinton, blogging, blogs, bluegrass music, caucasians, Church, classical music, compassion, conservatives, country music, democrats, eugene v. debs, government, homosexuality, hugging trees, jews, Liberals, men, mike huckabee, monica lewinsky, music, NRA, pistol pete, ralph nader, republicans, socialism, theology on January 7, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Setting: Church basement. Folding chairs arranged in a circle. All-white males with shame-full looks on their faces sit quietly, occasionally taking a sip of coffee or drink of water from a communal milk jug.
PP: Hello. My name is Pistol Pete and I’m a conservative.
All: Hi, Pete!
PP: I haven’t always been a conservative. In high school, [...]
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Posted in 12 steps, Bible, Church, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, anger, children, christians, devotion, faith, fathers, giving, greed, jesus christ, jews, law, men, money, praise, prayer, quotes, recovery, relationships, religion, rules, sin, spirituality, temple, truth, women, worship, youth, tagged Bible, children, christians, Church, faith, fathers, giving, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, jesus christ, jews, law, men, money, praise, prayer, recovery, relationships, religion, temple, truth, women, worship, youth on December 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
So [Jesus] made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen. He also scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. He told those who were selling doves, ‘Get these out of here! Stop making my Father’s house into a [...]
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