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Postpartum Depression Linked to Genetic Marker

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Did you experience postpartum depression after your baby was born? Did you mother have the same experience? How about the other women in your family? A study indicates that postpartum depression could have a genetic link, as well as an environmental one. Postpartum depression is a serious medical illness. It is something that can be experienced by both women and men (but we tend to hear more about it being diagnosed in women). Symptoms of postpartum depression can begin a few months after a baby has been born, and can also occur after a stillbirth or miscarriage. Parents who suffer … Continue reading →

Fight Feelings of Hopelessness with Activity

Feeling hopeless? Maybe you’ve got the economy on your mind. Maybe it’s the crummy job market in your area, or worries about losing your job. We live in stressful times! New research from Kuopio University Hospital in Finland shows that an active lifestyle may help improve your outlook on life. Researchers interviewed nearly 2500 men between the ages of 42 and 60. Participants were asked about their mood and physical activity levels and were tested for physical fitness. The more active the men in the study were, the less likely they were to experience feelings of hopelessness. The more vigorous … Continue reading →

In a Seemingly Hopeless Situation?

Have you ever felt you are in a seemingly hopeless situation? I’m sure that’s how Martha and Mary felt too. By the time Jesus arrived Lazarus had been four days in the tomb. If ever there was a seemingly hopeless situations this was it. Martha believed if Jesus had been there this would not have happened. There is an element of accusation in her words, John 11:21. It is followed by an affirmation of faith, verse 22. Jesus encourages that faith, bringing it to a higher lever, verses 25-27. Mary’s response is similar to that of Martha, verse 32. Jesus … Continue reading →

Have Yourself a Pity Party

Every once in a while it happens to the best of us. In between being so busy with work and kids we start to reflect on our lives. That downward spiraling feeling comes to haunt us when we least expect it. This is normal so do not fret. The life of a single parent is tough. We are tough. We have to be. Every so often though we are as weak as baby kittens. This is our pity party time. Go at it and let it happen. It is good to let it all out. The bad feelings need to … Continue reading →

What Have I Done to My Marriage? – Part Two, The Meltdown

In a previous article I wrote about some behind-the-scenes drama I’ve been enduring with the big changes in my marriage. Drama that could have threatened it even this early on in our new arrangement–-if I’d let it. I’ll get to the part about the salvation strategies I employed in another article, but first I’ll give you an idea of why I needed to call on them at all. Honeymoon’s Over Today marks a week and a half since my mom and I returned home. (Well, to my existing home and what is becoming her new one.) The first few days … Continue reading →

Overcoming Fear – Part 2

Fear can cripple us. Are you allowing it to cripple you? One way to deal with it is to confront the fear. This is what one young woman did after being attacked. Only lessons in self defense saved Nina Funnell from being raped while having a blade held to her throat. She could have let fear stop her from telling the police. Stop her from talking about it. Keep her hiding in her house. She chose not to, even though so far the police have not caught her attacker. Instead, she publicly came out and identified herself, as well as … Continue reading →

Hope For The Hopeless – Part 2

Are you facing a seemingly hopeless situation? Is Jesus asking you to believe the impossible? In the last blog we saw Jesus stop and take time for the individual – the woman with the issue of blood. Jairus could have been wishing Jesus would hurry up and get on with it. That he would get to his daughter and not waste precious time with this woman. It would have been an understandable reaction. Do you chafe and fret when Jesus doesn’t act in the time frame or manner you would like? If Jairus did react like this, we are not … Continue reading →

Hope For the Hopeless – Part 1

Do you ever feel that life is hopeless? That nothing works out as you hoped? I have to admit I’ve had moments when those thoughts have crossed my mind. In Mark 5:21-43 we find two people who could have been forgiven for thinking their situation was hopeless. Jairus, one of the synagogue rulers, came to Jesus and fell at his feet,pleading for the live of his daughter who was dying. We need to bring our children and their needs to Jesus now, not wait till they are in a life threatening situation. But sometimes through no fault of their own, … Continue reading →

Celebrity Breakdowns Part 1

While we are all a bit astonished by Britney’s very public breakdown, you must remember that breakdowns are nothing new to celebrities. I am sure we all have breakdowns of some type when stress gets to us, but celebrities are constantly under watch, so their breakdowns are usually preserved for posterity. Here are a few meltdowns you may have forgotten about in the wake of Britney’s: Robert Downey Jr. Robert seems to be well on the road to recovery now, but there was a time when he seemed like a hopeless cause. In 1996, he was arrested for wandering into … Continue reading →

A Believing Wife With An Unbelieving Husband Part 2

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Part 1 of this series discussed the many difficulties a Christian woman faces when she has a non-Christian husband. This article will focus on two Scripture passages dedicated to giving guidance to this woman. “And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband…” I Corinthians 7:13-14a “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without … Continue reading →