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Writer, speaker, singer-songwriter. Married to my love 25 years, mom of 2 young men. Follower of Jesus, heart for #kidswithmentalillness and their parents.
Among Lions: Fighting for Faith while Parenting a Kid with Mental Illness. One for all the parents who were like me — scared and sad and trying desperately to care for their kids suffering from emotional or mental illness. There are at least 8 million adolescents age 13-18 in the US currently diagnosed with a mental illness. One in five kids will need help with depression or other mental illness.
Tax season is upon us. Some people spend hours in their home offices doing the painstaking task of reading through all the tax booklets and filling in schedules
How I trust God, what I trust Him with and for, how my trust informs my actions and words— these are the measure of how open my heart-conduit is to the power and grace of the Holy Spirit. The first gives me a sense of satisfaction and peace; the second gives me dissatisfaction and a shame I need to confess to God. The ones whose homes are chaos because of mental illness, and the ones whose homes are emptier because of mental illness. Because I love God and I’m learning to love His people, I am practicing faith and faithfulness.