It began with prayers to God. I asked “what do I need to be doing?” I have been waiting for direction. It seems God keeps giving me nudges. Now is the time to pursue the passion to share. I want to share things I have found that helped me with my “issues” over the years.Continue reading “Pathways”
Author Archives: Raised from the Ashes
Escaping Our Emotions
Our society is plagued with individuals living with anxiety, depression, chronic pain and addiction. So, what fuels these, we ask. Over the years, struggles come. Problems hit us hard on every side. Loved ones betray us. We face physical and emotional pain. Do we know where to turn? Do we know how to deal withContinue reading “Escaping Our Emotions”
Forgiveness and Healing: Break Free from Past Regrets
I sent a scripture to a friend who is really struggling with some issues. After I finished sending it, I realized God wanted me to get the same message. I needed to forgive myself too, as I struggle greatly with guilt and regret! It is like a big, heavy ball and chain. It is attachedContinue reading “Forgiveness and Healing: Break Free from Past Regrets”
Would You Take 5 Minutes each Day to Say a Prayer for Someone Struggling with Addiction or Their Loved Ones?
We suffer alone in silence – both as addicts and as the family and friends of addicts. There is a feeling of isolation from the rest of the world. There are struggles with shame and guilt, of unacceptance, failure and the absolute waste of time as they do the “cycles” they go through trying toContinue reading “Would You Take 5 Minutes each Day to Say a Prayer for Someone Struggling with Addiction or Their Loved Ones?”
Prisons
There are many types of prisons beside just the ones with bars and cells where you are called an inmate. Many of us have our own “prisons” that lie between our two ears, in our mind, with all its limits through the negative thoughts we “entertain” in our daily lives. Those negative “voices within ourContinue reading “Prisons”
Fear
Fear is having more faith in Satan / Evil and the lies they send to us, than the promises that God has given us, along with the strength, power, and authority that Jesus showed and declared to us that we can, and do have, these same abilities that He did while he was here. WhenContinue reading “Fear”
Expanding on Ways to Change Your Life
Try (and give it some time consistently) changing your thoughts about your body and your choices of “feeding” it. State what you want to be true and keep thanking God that this is the way it is – calling those things as though they were, though they be not – until they become true. ListedContinue reading “Expanding on Ways to Change Your Life”
Thoughts that can Change Your Life
Speak words to change your thoughts that can help you change your life Instead of the voices “in your head” making you crazy And driving you to do things you shouldn’t and / or don’t want to do Let the voices in your head be YOUR voice of affirmations (statements) And “your” scripture / promiseContinue reading “Thoughts that can Change Your Life”
I Made a Decision to Not Lose Another Day Feeling Depressed
By shear willpower today I made the decision I was not going to “lose” another day to being depressed and not accomplish anything. I was not going to sit around being sad and feeling sorry for myself. I chose to get up and made (forced) myself to focus on good things. I made up my Continue reading “I Made a Decision to Not Lose Another Day Feeling Depressed”
A Very Difficult Lesson to “Get” and Embrace
We can love so deep that it hurts to the very core We can mourn and pray and beg God and our loved one, to turn from their actions We want them to listen to things that we know work for those who “actually” use them But, the truth is You cannot make them changeContinue reading “A Very Difficult Lesson to “Get” and Embrace”