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The Transformation of “Bringing Them Closer”: a Guest Post About Parenting Children With Mental Health Issues

May 20, 2020 by Stephanie 1 Comment

We overcomplicate it. We forget that parenting doesn’t take tools, it takes relationship. We want our kids to behave so we read a book on “The Top Three Ways to Stop Your Child From…”. We look to counsellors and medications to “fix” our children. The need to feel connected… and then counselling, medication, and books […]

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Resources for Parents

April 29, 2020 by Stephanie Leave a Comment

Helpful Links A. http://bipolarchild.com/B. http://stephaniejthompson.com/home/help-that-wasnt-in-the-book/C. http://www.tiltparenting.com/D. https://www.drmanipavuluri.com/E. https://childmind.org/F. https://www.thekennedyforum.org/G. https://www.nami.org/H. https://www.kidsinthehouse.com/special-needsI. www.keyministry.comJ. https://www.adhdchildhood.com/ K. https://conniejakab.com/blog/ L. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline M. https://www.mghclaycenter.org N. https://kidshelpline.com.au/ (peer support) O. https://www.themamaontherocks.com/ P. https://www.socialthinking.com/free-stuff Q. https://www.mhanational.org/bipolar-disorder-children Books A. The Bipolar Child, Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice PapolosB. What Works For Bipolar Kids: Help and Hope For Parents, Dr. Mani PavuluriC Troubled Minds: […]

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Sacred Connections Amidst Mental Health

April 22, 2020 by Stephanie Leave a Comment

As I scan across the byte-sized headlines filling my social media accounts, an increasingly common phrase beckons my attention. “Mental Health” is finally gaining a common place in our cultural vernacular. In the midst of strong opinions regarding the current ills of the American  narrative, “Mental Health” becomes a tossed-around phrase connected to resolutions. But, […]

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Welcome to Holland

April 18, 2020 by Stephanie Leave a Comment

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How We Can Support Families of Kids with Special Needs Adjusting to Quarantine

March 27, 2020 by Stephanie 1 Comment

We all belong to each other. In these days of social distancing, my soul and my body miss the daily connections. Specifically, I am aware of the absence of those with whom I engage in my routines. As a substitute teacher, I float around to different schools but because of repeated contact, these students and […]

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Why We Don’t Always Eat Dinner at the Table…and it’s OK

March 8, 2020 by Stephanie 4 Comments

We don’t always eat dinner at the table. Especially right now. Our dining room table has morphed into a cubicle for my husband and a desk for my daughter. I’d like to say the current surreal way of life for many of us contributed to our current behavior. But, truthfully, this set-up isn’t completely new […]

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He arrived at this moment baring his vulnerability. The implications of his possible next steps weighed heavily upon him. All of his being: mind, body, spirit. Divine yet human. Sitting in emotions does not equal sin. Crying out to his father demonstrated trust even in this dark moment. It witnesses to the intimacy of their relationship. God can hold us in all spaces and places.

The question Jesus asks sits with us because we have all been there. As Tish Harrison Warren writes in Prayer of the Night, “We don’t get to choose our preferred crosses or resurrections.” Embracing life in the Kingdom Jesus ushered in transforms us. Like Jesus promised, it is an abundant life. But not without it’s sorrows. Because the identity of being Theotokoi (God Bearers) means laying down our lives as daily rhythms.

 So we demonstrate, by transparently living our moments, the tension of living in this place of in between. But sometimes, the reality of the tension overwhelms our senses. We cry out in our anguished humanity for the cup to pass from our hands in the midst of fear, and uncertainty about the path forward.: Illness, loss, advocating for the marginalized, death.

But we can also cling to the hope in God who hears us, holds us, and sees the redemption at work in ways we cannot. All while entering into our moments of despair with a love that knows no bounds of time, space, expectation. Jesus took the cup. And we can because he did.

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“Then Jesus went with them to a place called Get “Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and agitated. Then he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.” And going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.” Mark 14:36-39.

He arrived at this moment baring his vulnerability. The implications of his possible next steps weighed heavily upon him. All of his being: mind, body, spirit. Divine yet human. Sitting in emotions does not equal sin. Crying out to his father demonstrated trust even in this dark moment. It witnesses to the intimacy of their relationship. God can hold us in all spaces and places.

The question Jesus asks sits with us because we have all been there. As Tish Harrison Warren writes in Prayer of the Night, “We don’t get to choose our preferred crosses or resurrections.” Embracing life in the Kingdom Jesus ushered in transforms us. Like Jesus promised, it is an abundant life. But not without it’s sorrows. Because the identity of being Theotokoi (God Bearers) means laying down our lives as daily rhythms.

 So we demonstrate, by transparently living our moments, the tension of living in this place of in between. But sometimes, the reality of the tension overwhelms our senses. We cry out in our anguished humanity for the cup to pass from our hands in the midst of fear, and uncertainty about the path forward.: Illness, loss, advocating for the marginalized, death.

But we can also cling to the hope in God who hears us, holds us, and sees the redemption at work in ways we cannot. All while entering into our moments of despair with a love that knows no bounds of time, space, expectation. Jesus took the cup. And we can because he did.

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