I am happy to have Carolyn Dale Newell as my guest this week at A Walk to the Well. You may remember Carolyn from her July 16th blog: “How to Recognize the Attack on our Minds.” This week Carolyn will talk with us on “Living on Empty.” “Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!” Psalm 30:10 Have you ever felt pain so relentless you questioned whether you would survive? Has sorrow cut to the depths of your heart? Have your burdens crushed you under their weight? Depression has paid me several visits throughout the years. Read More
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How to Recognize the Attack on our Minds by Carolyn Dale Newell
I want to focus on the word “war.” It connotes engaging in a battle with an enemy. That sounds mild compared to news footage or movies about the attack on Benghazi. Get those pictures in your mind because our battle is no different except it is fought with spiritual weapons rather than artillery.
Hope or Despair?
The following words passed from friend to friend over the years. Stephanie, friend of our daughter, Rene’, shared these words with her during her recovery after surgery for stage III ovarian cancer in 2014, and they are still relevant today. Originally Joan Chittister penned these words on hope or despair in “The Psalms: Meditations for every Day of the Year.” Cut from the Same Cloth ~ “Hope and despair are not opposites. They are cut from the very same cloth; made from the very same material; shaped from the very same circumstances. Most of all, every life finds itself forced Read More