by Jodie Stevens | Apr 24, 2017 | Happiness, Hope, Love |
When I was a child I loved reading The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams 1922). It’s a story about a child’s toy that longs to be ‘Real.’ “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out...
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 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 | Mar 27, 2017 | Happiness, Hope |
“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will fold them up, And they will be changed. But You are the same,...
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...
