Tag: Prayer

• Unfailing Love

  

  I went through one of the darkest times of my life. I was being tormented by the darkness, and I felt far from God’s love. I wasn’t sure how I suddenly got dumped in such a moment, but all I knew was I felt abandoned and alone, and I thought I had no hope for […]

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  July 6, 2022

  2022, Faith, July 2022

  Architect, Burkholder Design Collaborative, Children's Miracle Network, God, Kayla Burkholder, Loved by God, Nathan Burkholder, Prayer, Rare Genetic Disorder, Sin, Spiritual Warfare, Suicide

• In the Wilderness

  

  I’m a highly-functioning, anxious depressive. Doesn’t that sound fun? I hide it extremely well — the gift of being considered highly-functional. No one sees the panic flaring in my chest as my carefully-controlled world descends into chaos or the agonizing oppression that weighs me down when too happy becomes so, so sad. I’m guessing that […]

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  June 2, 2022

  2022, June 2022, Storytellers

  2 Corinthians 12:9, Anxiety, Depression, Eaglecrest Counseling Center, God, Jesus, Joann Weston, Mental Health, Prayer, quiet + kin, Satan, Suicide, Tara Hathcock

• Grace To Grieve by Lori Matthews

  

  On Oct. 14, 2014, my husband had emergency surgery for a mass in his colon. Two days later, Todd was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer. My strong, healthy, 46-year-old husband, the father of our two sons, would endure four surgeries in six days and spend 19 days in the hospital recovering. And suddenly, grief […]

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  October 3, 2021

  2021, Faith, October 2021, Storytellers

  Colon Cancer, God, Grief, Jesus, Lori Matthews, Missouri, Mourning, Nixa, Prayer, Psalms 73:23-24, Savior, Todd Matthews