“David was greatly distressed, for the men spoke of stoning him…But David encouraged and strengthened himself in the Lord his God” (I Samuel 30:6).
What would you do if your entire family was killed? If the people who were once your friends and supporters turned their backs on you? If your town – including every familiar landmark, every favorite hang-out spot, and every park, business and beautiful tree – was destroyed?
You’d probably feel pretty lost. Lost, abandoned, hopeless, worried, depressed – you name it, and you’d probably feel it.
I know I would. My family members are my greatest earthly supporters. My …read more

Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, and it seems like I just keep running into sad and…odd mental health news related to children.
Case in point:
Tammy Lewis, mother to a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, and self-described bishop Alan Bushey are in custody on “felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child.”
According to a Yahoo! News article, Lewis and her two children lived with Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth’s corpse for two months on Bushey’s advice. Bushey claimed Magdeline (who was 90 years old when she died) would come back to life.
Well, Magdeline did …read more