The sirens sounded behind me as I rounded the corner in my beat-up Camry. It was late 1999; I was 21. It never feels good to get pulled over by the police, but when the cop told me I had an expired registration, I wanted to sink into the floor. The notice to renew was …
5 Ways the Lament Psalms Carry Us in Troubled Times
The Bible first shocked me in high school. Our pastor read from Psalm 137, and the last verse blew my mind—and not in a good way. It read, “Happy is the one who seizes [Babylonian] infants and dashes them against the rocks.” I recoiled. Our pastor explained that the Psalm was meant to horrify us. …
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Feel Lost After Having a Baby? For iBeleive
I really, really wanted to enjoy motherhood. So let’s just say it was less-then-ideal when my husband found me wailing in the kitchen one morning at 4 am. He ran in, his eyes burning with the intensity of someone just woken from dead sleep to an emergency. “Is Lucy okay?” he asked, meaning our six-month-old …
When You Forget How to Cry
Do you struggle to cry? Do you stand above your life sometimes at crucial moments and feel as if the emotions you’re feeling are like water running below you, while you’re up on a bridge, watching them rush away? And you think, Wait, shouldn’t I feel like crying right now? Someone please tell me I’m …
The Healthiest People I Know Are Mentally Ill
“In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on any early dinner date would be: ‘And how are you crazy?’” Alain de Botton, “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person“ When I was six, my nine-year-old sister, Katie, was put into a mental hospital for three months. There’s a lot to …