Kathleen S Evenhouse
Writing With Vision
This is from my Creative Nonfiction course I am taking through http://www.thehabit.co. Assignment: think of a time in which an insight from a story helped you make sense of some experience or problem? If so, tell that story. What’s wrong with me? I need my husband to hear me, yet hope that he doesn’t. How… Read More
Depression isn’t a dragonThat overtly threatensAnd awakensVanquishing knightsInside ourselves. Rather,It is a silent enemyThat infiltratesAnd becomes part of the landscape,Assuming more and more prominenceUntil takeoverIs accomplished. To mount an insurrectionWe must developA vigilant networkOf counter-spiesSnooping through the mundane,Sniffing out each plot,Shoring upThe sagging bulwarksOf equanimity. Sorry, I can’t help you with that. I wrote this… Read More
Here are the first few lines of a poem I wrote in 1992 about depression. Depression isn’t a dragonThat overtly threatensAnd awakensVanquishing knightsInside ourselves. Rather,It is a silent enemyThat infiltratesAnd becomes part of the landscape,Assuming more and more prominenceUntil takeoverIs accomplished. Depression always wants to be a close companion in my life, but, with God’s… Read More
“He is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.” 2 Samuel 23:4, NIV Gray—my life is devoid of color. My responsibilities demand energy, but I have none. More out of habit than hope, I glance out of the window… Read More
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? … No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. Romans 8:35-37
God designed each one of us: our minds, our bodies, our temperaments. This is something to remember when you are mired in the quicksand of depression and hating yourself, thinking you are not worthy of anything. Bathe yourself daily in Psalm 139. Let God change your mind. Work with Him to change your thought patterns.… Read More
I’ve been there: in a deep funk with no energy and stuck in depressive quicksand. It’s not hopeless, there is a way to stop sinking deeper and deeper. But I’ll let Patsy tell you. Patsy Clairmont tells her story about her struggle with depression and how she learned to say, “Yes!” Her words of encouragement and… Read More
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