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 20, 2017 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Happiness, Hope, Humor |
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training” (Anna Freud). I’m 10 years old and really excited. I’m in fourth grade and it’s field trip day. Our class is going to visit the Super Computer! Now this is a fancy machine with a...
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 15, 2017 | Emotional Difficulties & Addiction, Fear and Anxiety, Happiness, Hope |
I used to experience deep feelings of emptiness. I could be in a room full of people and still feel alone. Somewhere along the line I had created a shell, a ‘false front’ I wanted people to see instead of the real me. In a radio interview on Focus on the Family I...
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...
