Depressed: A Mother's Struggle to Overcome Depression

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With the news of Robin Williams' untimely passing heavy on the hearts of many, conversations are taking place across social media about depression. Take the time to educate yourself. If it doesn't affect you, more than likely it affects someone in your life.

This blogger shares openly and honestly about her struggle.

All I can say for certain is that I am depressed. And I am accepting that.

I need medication. I am no longer fighting that.

Perhaps, maybe… God has allowed me to suffer with chronic depression for today, when after three years of spilling my life out into the blogosphere, I have suddenly shared with you that I battle depression. What if this burden I have carried for so long is because someone out there needed to know that they are not alone? Could it be that they needed to know that depression happens to good people, to great moms, and sometimes, we just need some help?

Depressed: A Mother's Struggle to Overcome Depression - Meet Penny.

Struggling With Blogger’s Guilt

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This blogger writes about her struggles trying to balance her everyday life as a homeschool mom with writing on her blog. In this busy season of life, it can be a struggle to find that writing time. But she knows where her priorities lie:

I’ve got just one life to live. While writing and blogging is very much a part of my life, it’s not all that I do. And so today, I’m setting down the guilt I put upon myself for not blogging on some made-up schedule. I’m laying aside the burden I’ve carried around for the past two and a half months for not keeping up with an insane blogging schedule, as well as tending to the realities of my life.

 Instead, I’m asking the Lord to help me be faithful to do all He requires of me for today, and nothing more. I pray a lot of those days include writing for God.  I think they will.

Blogger’s Guilt | Tales from the Laundry Room.

Living Life Outside of the Shell: Finding Balance

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Those of us who are introverts are frequently admonished to "come out of our shells." Yet, as this blogger points out, we don't need to completely ditch the shell. It serves as a purpose of refuge and retreat. It's important that we take the time to refuel our spirits so that we are not stepping out of our shells in our own strength.

We don't have a physical shell but we do have a spiritual one.  And just like turtles we can't live without that shell as our protection. Our shells are our place of refuge in God. If we don't first run to Him in our quiet place where it's just us and Him, we will never be brave enough to stick our heads outside the shell.  Our shell is where we retreat and get a word from God. He downloads dreams into us in our shell. He prepares us for what is to come in our shell.  

Life Outside the Shell: Don't ditch the shell!.

Worshipping God in Spirit and Truth

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This blogger honestly shares her struggles in trying to focus her worship on God but getting easily distracted by her surroundings. Many who go out into the mission field report that the people whom they are serving understand worship in a far deeper way than we do, because they know what it is to suffer and to do without.

They are the happiest people on earth because they have the Holy Spirit flowing through them; and since they have the Holy Spirit so deeply in them, they are able to worship “in spirit and in truth” despite their un-ideal surroundings (to American standards.) They know true worship I yearn for that feeling.

I Don’t Know How To Worship | Relentless.

Finding Faith in Miscarriage and Stillbirth

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Most women have been touched by miscarriage or possibly a stillbirth at some time. We may struggle with saying the right thing to the woman who has lost her child. If it happened to us, we may find ourselves struggling with anger and doubts, carrying the grief for a long time.

This blogger gently points us to the sovereignty of God and the comfort that sustains us in our darkest hour.

Finishing Through Grief: Faith in Miscarriage & Stillborn {FMF}.

On Learning to Release Our Children

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As Christian moms we love and nurture our children, taking heart God's words in Deuteronomy 6:7 to "teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."

But watching them grow up, letting go and trusting God isn't easy. This blogger talks about the joy and pain of releasing our children into God's care.

Motherhood: When Releasing Our Children to God's Plan Hurts | not perfect. just ordinary..

We Don't Have to Live in Fear

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This beautiful post is from a blogger who gently reminds us that we don't have to live our lives frozen in fear.

God’s Word reminds us dozens of times – through command and through the personal experiences of Saints who have come before us – that we don’t need to be afraid. Living in fear of this or that possibly happening is living opposite to the freedom we’ve been given in Christ.

via A Lamp, a Light, and a Writer | Psalm 119:105 ~ Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.