By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

A Winding Road to Joy

The purpose of a spiritual journey is rarely to find an answer; rather, it is a process of continually asking questions. When I look back to Ash Wednesday when I decided to use this Lent to go on a pilgrimage to joy, I imagined it would be gaining a deeper sense of what joy means in my…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 27, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

Quarantine?

Quarantine: mid 17th century: from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’. Today is day 31 of Lent. It’s hard to even remember we are in Lent….or perhaps we are actually viscerally reminded more than ever before, because of our physical (and spiritual?) quarantine. Perhaps we are desperately hoping these forty days will be over and the brightness of Easter…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 26, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicideFeatured2 Comments

Keeping it together in COVID-19.

Social isolation is something I am familiar with as a person who battles depression. Sometimes as a survival mechanism. Sometimes as an alert things are getting really bad. And now here we are all being asked to socially isolate for our safety. For some this is a welcomed respite. For others this is triggering all…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

Love in the time of COVID-19

Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear and not bothering.” Pooh’s Little Instruction Book I’ve really been enJOYing seeing all the newfound joy discoveries people are sharing during this unexpected but welcomed time at home. I’ve seen the most touching ways neighbors be…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 21, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

Hope!

Out for a walk this morning…this says it all. Hope is alive! Day 25 #pilgrimagetojoy

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 20, 2020March 20, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

A wake up call?

This morning I read in the NY Times the findings of the World Happiness report showing Finland being named the number 1 country in the world in terms of happiness. The authors questioned the timeliness of this report in the time of coronavirus. Ultimately, they concluded, that there are lessons the US, whose ranking dropped…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 19, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeaturedLeave a Comment

A Prayer for Now

Click here to join me in a Prayer for COVID-19 Lord Jesus Christ, you traveled through towns and villages curing every disease and illness. At your command, the sick were made well. Come to our aid now, in the midst of the global spread of the coronavirus, that we may experience your healing love. Heal…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 17, 2020 bipolar, Depression, faith, Featured, healing, joy, lent, meditation, Mental health, Mental Illness, suicide, suicide prevention, UncategorizedFeatured4 Comments

Staying close in a new world of social distancing

We’re all feeling in it to some degree. The necessary strain of keeping apart from each other. Yet some of us, regardless of the severe warnings, still yearn to be close to others and are risking their own and other’s health. Just look to some crowded beaches in popular Spring Break destinations. Of all times,…

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What exactly is ‘essential’?

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 29, 2020

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We’ve been seeing this word just about everywhere. Non-essential and essential travel. Non-essential and essential events. Non-essential workers, non-essential workforce and many of us now depending on essential workers. I am constantly asking my children who want to leave the house, is it actually essential? This morning my daughter said to me how amazed at…

Hold Steady…

By: Beth-Sarah Wright March 24, 2020

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Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose. Proverbs 18:21 Right now we’re hearing a lot. Different points of view. Different opinions. Differing findings. Differing advice. Lots of different words. Take care in the words you allow to land on your heart. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Hold steady.…