Bipolar, but still Christian : Just Another Challege

 Isaiah 26:3 , “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.” I was driving along and praying as I do. My mind was spinning with concerns and this verse just popped into my memory.  God’s answer so quick to arrive saying to focus on him and not everything else. I recognize it’s like Paul said about taking up his cross daily. We have to start over again every single day. I was of course fretting again this morning, and I remembered this from the other day. I can’t change anybody else. All I can do is keep trusting my God to change me. And understanding that I am enough because He choose me. People might have expectations we can’t fulfill, but God just says, “Come.” Come unto me. I titled this rest in the midst of the storm because we all know there’s a storm going on out there. Our rest in God is present even while the storm goes on. Whether you’re thinking of the world storm of war or something far more personal like emotional ...

 When you are carrying trauma, it can cause you to misjudge situations. It can also cause you to overreact out of fear or self preservation. When the storm is over, you’ve lost another friend. Now I am dealing with the trauma and keeping a safe distance from my friends. I can’t undo the past, but I can learn from it. Some days however, it feels like I am standing in a graveyard of my own making. I see myself all alone because I don’t know how to heal. If the story ended there, it would sound so hopeless. My God who made heaven and earth; sees me. He knows exactly who I am. He made me this way for a purpose. Psalm 139 “even there” there is no place I can go where God will abandon me. People will reject you, misunderstand you, and abandon you, but God never will. Paul had a few skeletons in his closet. He called himself the chief of sinners, yet Paul said “…forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching forth unto those things that are before, I press toward the mark for the p...