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A pastor discusses his diagnosis with bipolar disorder
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Two and a half years ago, I sat in the doctor’s office with a funny feeling in my stomach. I had just been diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder. After the initial reaction passed, there was relief. I hadn’t felt like myself for ten years. I had known that something wasn’t right. Now it had a name. Now I knew what was wrong.
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“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” goes the old saying. What it means is that you can show a person something that is good, beautiful, and beneficial, but you can’t force that person to want it for himself. A friend once told me . . .
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Your faith is a personal thing. When Elijah the prophet was ready to give up, when he felt he had failed and all was lost, that was between him and the Lord. "Take my life," he said. "I am no better than my ancestors" (1 Kings 19:4). And in a gentle whisper, the Lord was . . .
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Since when did Amazon’s logo advertise that it sells everything from A to Z? Actually, since the year 2000. The arrow underneath the name, connecting the a and the z, indicates that. I was today years old when I understood that. The expression “I was today years old . . .
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