New Beginnings

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

For a long time I grieved over what has past away in my life. How I came to identify myself as a student with dreams of one day

becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist. I cannot lie. The wound is still healing over at the casting aside of that dream for now.

I fell headlong into a deep depression being as I am disabled and I now have nothing to fill my days with.

[Tweet “I’ve had to learn a certain kind of loneliness that drives you to meet God face to face.”] 

A loneliness that is not friendly to one who wants to be productive in life.

I do have a household to run along with my husband.  We have three girls nine, thirteen, and fourteen.  They keep us busy with laundry

(my nemesis), dishes, and other housework as he and I are able.  But there is a part of me crying out at forty-two years of age that

wants a corner of the world just for herself.  That place is here.

 

I had pushed it far away because it became to painful to write the truth. Still I think its time for new beginnings here.

See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:19 NIV

So I’m going to write from the heart as I’ve always intended, but with a bit more vulnerability.  Something my readers have

never been told is that I struggle with bipolar depression as well as the PTSD from childhood sexual abuse.

There has always been a stigma around mental illness but I’m here to say I’m not going to let that stop me from

reaching out and talking about what affects more people in your life that you may know.  Thankfully we have the mind of

Christ to lean on and live our daily lives trusting in His care if we are Christians.

I hope you will stick around for new beginnings.  Maybe its time for you to embrace something new.  You just have to open your

hand and let go of the old to make room for you to grasp hold of that something new.  SO let it go.  Let it all go Beloved. Then receive.

If I had to leave you with just one word today it would be new.

 

I’m linking up this week with my friends.  Holley Gerth and Bonnie Gray and their communities of encouragers.

So grab a warm cup of encouragement from them by clicking over and checking them out too.  You won’t be disappointed that you did.