In recognition of World Schizophrenia Awareness Day, I want to talk about schizophrenia and my unique psychosis. I was diagnosed with...

The attire at a wedding and a chancellor's business breakfast are remarkably similar upon first glance. At least, all the men wear suits...

Mercy, true mercy, is uncomfortable, and grace is profoundly unsettling. But I don’t deserve it!  our hearts cry, but that’s the point....

HOPE is the through-thread of my experience.

For the past four weeks, I have been undergoing an intensive treatment for my mental health ailments. The treatment is called...

Sometimes we mistake depth of suffering for validity of suffering. We think to ourselves our broken finger is a less valid source of pain...

For the past month, I have fasted writing my novels and books, allowing myself only blog posts and journal entries to process the events...

Today, my eyes are dull, my senses numb. I feel distant, as though nothing in the world can hurt me, yet everything inside me screams of...

They take hold of us all at some point, twisting the truth, blinding us to reality, and dragging us down into whirlpools of anxiety. They...

It’s curious how words can hurt. When someone tells me something disappointing or painful, I can feel physically sick. A severe verbal...

I have a problem—I am obsessed with productivity. In my mind, I must account for every waking minute with what I accomplished that day. A...

“I love you!” my son shouts as he leaps out of the car when we arrive at his school in the morning. He slams the door and dashes up to...

I. Surely it is time, Surely this time I’ll arise to the refreshing of my soul. Can it be this time? Let it be this time, I pray, this...

I have always had trouble connecting with the Psalms. It frustrates me, as I enjoy reading poetry and studying Scripture. Why is it so...

John’s Revelation presents a beautiful picture of time spent in the presence of God. In case we think heaven will be boring, we ought to...

Never have I known my eight-year-old son to burst into song, or at least, not into songs I know. He has his own tunes and lyrics he...

I mentioned I love light—I love the imagery of light, the symbolism of light, the metaphor of light. Light in all its facets represents...

Daylight is peace, night a battle. As the sun dips low in the sky, hiding its face from the pain, I gird myself for a siege. Not a...

Motherhood saved me. More accurately, God saved me through motherhood. Becoming “Mommy” opened a new pathway in my mind, a pathway to...

Light has always fascinated me. Warming, bright lights like the sun; shy, shadowy lights like the moon and the stars; little twinkling...