by Jodie Stevens | Jun 8, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope |
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world” (1 Timothy 6:7). I never realize how much stuff I have until it’s time to move it all. What used to fit in the back of my pickup now requires a moving truck the...
by Jodie Stevens | Jun 4, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Hope, Love |
“When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6) Mental illness, addiction, and other traumas plague many families including my own. When I chose to recover it was a...
by Jodie Stevens | May 16, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
You word is a lamp on my feet, a light on my path” (Psalm 119). In a previous piece I wrote about how listening to too many opinions can make it hard to hear God’s voice. This dovetails with another thing that can drown out God’s voice; an...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 13, 2017 | Choices, Hope, Love |
“Tell the people of Jerusalem, Look your king is coming to you. He is humble, riding on a donkey-riding on a donkey’s colt” (Matthew 21:5). What happens when God’s will doesn’t line up with ours? It’s tempting to give up isn’t...
by Jodie Stevens | Apr 3, 2017 | Boundaries, Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Humor |
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe” (Proverbs 29:25). The fear of man has tripped me up in more ways than I can count. One of the biggest problems it’s caused me is a lot of confusion and difficulty in...
by Jodie Stevens | Mar 12, 2017 | Choices, Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope, Love |
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death (2 Corinthians 7:10). Psychology today defines guilt as: a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. Shame...
