Posted in God, Iraq, Jesus, Vietnam, addiction, country music, drug abuse, drugs, folk music, jesus christ, john prine, memories, music, prayer, quotes, soldiers, suicide, war, tagged addiction, drug abuse, faith, folk music, God, Iraq, Jesus, john prine, memories, music, prayer, quotes, soldiers, suicide, Vietnam, war on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
{first published on March 29, 2007 in Necessary Therapy}
I went to a worship service this week and we said a prayer litany for the American soldiers serving in Iraq. During the prayer, we read off a list of all the soldiers from our area who had been killed in the war.
I don’t know the statistics (maybe [...]
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Posted in Bible, God, Jesus, Sabbath, addiction, devotion, faith, jesus christ, nathan baxter, prayer, quotes, religion, spirituality, st. augustine, tagged addiction, Bible, devotion, faith, God, nathan baxter, prayer, quotes, Sabbath, spirituality, st. augustine on April 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
{first published in Necessary Therapy on April 14, 2007}
I’ve heard it said, “Be careful of what you want. You might just get it.”
In my life, I’ve been fairly adept at getting what I’ve wanted. God has blessed (and cursed) me with the ability to talk my way into and out of nearly anything. But [...]
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Posted in Apostle Paul, Bible, Church, God, Jesus, addiction, books, bus, children, faith, family, fathers, forgiveness, grace, home, jesus christ, life, love, mothers, salvation, sex, sin, truth, tagged addiction, Apostle Paul, Bible, book, bus, children, Church, daughter, family, father, forgiveness, God, grace, home, jesus christ, life, love, mother, philip yancey, salvation, sex, sin, truth on March 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16, New International Version)
For the Apostle Paul, Scripture was what we now know as the Old Testament (or Hebrew Scriptures). Now, it also applies to the New Testament (the Christian Scriptures). The whole Bible – all [...]
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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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For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. [...]
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Thus [God] has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature. (2 Peter 1:4)
Each of us is born with a “corrupted” nature. Classic theologians refer to [...]
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Posted in Habits, Jesus, TV, addiction, entertainment, folk music, humor, john prine, media, memories, music, obsessions on April 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I was addicted to television as a child. When I came off of it in college, I was a man on a mission, convinced that TV was at the very least one of Satan’s minions, if not ‘ole Beelzebub himself.
Though not everyone followed my thinking about television, my good friend John Prine certainly [...]
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Since hitting puberty, I’ve constantly wavered between the desparate sense that I need a wife and the pseudo-self-contentment that I can make it on my own. After 17+ years of marriage, I can honestly say that I need my wife more than anything or anyone in this world.
For the most part (for better and for worse), [...]
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Posted in Bible, God, Sabbath, addiction, devotion, faith, nathan baxter, prayer, quotes, spirituality, st. augustine on April 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve heard it said, “Be careful of what you want. You might just get it.”
In my life, I’ve been fairly adept at getting what I’ve wanted. God has blessed (and cursed) me with the ability to talk my way into and out of nearly anything. But often, I find that getting what I want leaves [...]
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Posted in Bible, Church, God, Jesus, addiction, art, blogging, blogs, faith, humor on March 29, 2007 | 10 Comments »
WARNING: This post is not funny. Those of you who are in need of a good laugh today should consult prior posts before moving onto another blog site.
I’m having a lot of fun with this blog. It’s great to hear from so many people who are having fun with it as well. Today, however, I [...]
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Posted in Church, God, Habits, Iraq, Jesus, Vietnam, addiction, drug abuse, faith, folk music, john prine, memories, music, prayer, quotes, soldiers, suicide, war on March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I went to a church gathering this week and we said a prayer litany for the American soldiers serving in Iraq and the Iraqi citizens. During the prayer, we read off a list of 30 soldiers from our area who had been killed in the war.
I don’t know the statistics (maybe someone out there does), [...]
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Posted in God, Jesus, addiction, appearance, basketball, faith, family, james dean, memories, physical health, recovery, smoking on March 26, 2007 | 10 Comments »
I smoked for 6 years. It doesn’t sound like much. But if you add the smoke I ingested in the womb, around the house growing up, in cars with the windows rolled up and other places, I had a good 23 years under my belt.
In college, smoking was cool - even though smokers were [...]
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OK. I admit it. I don’t own a car (my wife has one I drive maybe 10 miles/month). I walk. I walk a lot. Some days I walk as much as 10 miles - not to exercise - but simply to get to where I’m going. The rest of the time I take public transportation [...]
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Posted in Friends, God, addiction, anne jackson, books, emotions, obsessions, pornography, relationships, stephen arterburn on March 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I met a man once who was addicted to pornography. He told me how much it bothered him, once he went into recovery, that sexually explicit material was labeled “Adult” & “Mature”. It is anything but. It is designed to prey on people who are stuck in emotional prepubescence, people who are (either by design [...]
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