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Had a stimulating discussion w/ the team @rooseveltcc about mental illness in the Northwest and how getting healthy becomes almost like a full-time job for those with mental illness. If I am candid enough I can say that I understand this, partially. I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety attacks since as early as 13, sitting in the middle school boys room hunched over, beset by some strange overwhelming, irrational sensation. Since then I would have 2 more major “episodes”, one in college and one post-college, which averages out to one every 4 years or so. The last time I had a depressive episode was Read more…
Continuing previous thoughts about pastors and depression. I’d like to introduce another important and related dimension; Sabbath. What do u guys think? Is Sabbath related to keeping depression @ bay? My talk last Sunday on the subject resonated w/folks but I find myself still wrestling: Is Sabbath really about a 24-hr period per se? What day should it be then? And is not Sabbath (in a sense) re-defined, maybe even re-voked in the NT??? At any rate, Read more…
Darrell Johnson gave a stirring talk on depression among the clergy today – and personally I think he should blog. So I transcribed some notes and reflections – from my own experience mingled with some of the theologies he presents concerning this “shame-based killer”. I’ve come to see depression among the clergy as a form of self-martyrdom – an unholy dying (in some cases, not all) – because it is often at our own hands, and before the idols of our own hero-worship (ourselves). More thoughts here. Read more…
As per my talk last Sunday about rest, I’ve been finding the theme of rest popping up here and there; last Tuesday @ Chapel at Regent, and then different people talking about the need for refueling ourselves as ministers. I’ve heard much of the same that we need rest in order to give others rest, we need to replenish so that we have a resource to tap into to help others in need. Prescribed were all manner of things such as exercise, laughter, company, good food, plenty of water… so how do you stay healthy? How do you find that elusive “rest”?
Will be preaching this Sunday @RCC about vocation and the theology of work. It’s also a great topic to gripe – err.. blog about. Sure people have a love / hate relationship with their work – where do u stand? I’d love to hear from you as I put my sermon together based on Ecclesiastes 2:11 – 24; perhaps your story will even find its way into the message. But tell me – do you love / hate what you do, and why?
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This holiday season there’s been a lot of buzz about nothing.
Specifically, buying nothing. Can’t help but wonder if somewhere subconciously it’s easier for us to advocate this concept now that the economy is stalling and we’re celebrating buy nothing day everyday anyway, but that’s a question I have for u economics types. Isn’t a “buy nothing” day a bad thing for the economy? Or is a buy nothing day exactly what we need since it was the over-consumerism that got us into trouble in the first place?
Who suffers more: the entrepreneur or the spouse (in this case, wife) of the entrepreneur?
Great great article from a wife’s perspective of a guy who ran a business into the ground, revived it, suffered, and finally made it big after a decade. And she was nucking futs enough to stay with the dude. As a chronic addict of the future possibilities, it was a great read to see what goes on in the mind of a wife of said chronic. She likens it to being a passenger in a truck on a windy road. It’s rare the driver gets sick, but the passenger who feels nausea most acutely. So I’m recommending this article to anyone who rides shotgun with a crazy person who constantly has their head in the future, risks everything on faith, and has to always do things “outside the box”.
Inc magazine: Hitched To Someone Else’s Dream
Let’s take a break from politics and talk about health.
In particular, emotional and spiritual health. DJ as usual brings up a good topic about the connection between emotional maturity and spiritual maturity. This hits close to home for me as a recovering depression(ist) with a melancholic disposition. I’ve been known to have several “down” episodes in my life – and I’ve hated those periods. It was the worst feeling in the world, to be depressed, even more worse than nausea or being sick. I never treated these episodes with pharmaceuticals or anti-depressants and have always felt I was better off w/o. But while dark, oh the lessons I learned in these places… and one of which Read more…
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