By Stanley Popovich Some people who have a chronic illness can get depressed. Sometimes this depression can get the best of them. As a result, here is a short list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their … [Read more...]
Choosing the Right Path
“Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet & take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left” (Proverbs 4:25-27). Some time ago, I attempted a … [Read more...]
Providing Pastoral Care to Persons with Mental Illness & Their Family
Rev. Rose Anne Briotte, a psychiatric chaplain in Knoxville, TN, & a member of the Mental Health Ministries Advisory Committee, has put together a brochure on "Guidelines for Clergy: Providing Pastoral Care to Persons with … [Read more...]
Does Our Perception Change How Well Our Painkillers Work?
If you switch from a more expensive drug to a less expensive painkiller & believe that it possibly does not work as well, is it due to the actual drug or could it be because you now believe it is less effective because it is … [Read more...]
Keeping our Vision
Image via Wikipedia “Where there is no vision, the people perish, but he that keepeth the law, happy is he” (Proverbs 29:18 KJV). I have heard this verse quoted many times & applied to many circumstance. I recently … [Read more...]