My Faith
Entries that touch on my faith in God.
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Why Does God Permit Illness And Disease?
My thoughts, and the answer I think God gave me, to the question of why He lets people suffer from illness and disease. I may need to revise this some day as the thoughts are new.
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Psychology And Religion.
Just how sane is a psychologist who thinks God talks to her? The tale of my struggle to marry the beliefs of my profession with the beliefs of my faith. Sometimes the two seem to be completely incompatible.
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God Does Heal
The shameful tale of what God, and the good people He used to do the job, had to go through to get me to a place where God could heal me of an illness I forgot I was suffering from.
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God Won’t Tell Me What I Already Know.
The lessons I learned when, as an opponent of abortion, I faced a situation that led to me having an abortion.
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Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?
The story of how I came to ask God why He lets bad things happen and the answer to the question that, I believe, He gave me.
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Why am I doing this?
My paranoid, pessimistic musings on the trouble I could get into professionally and personally for writing this blog and my conclusion to the question of why I am taking the risks.
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Messages from God.
God taught me to listen to Him first because the advice of others is not always the message God has for me at that point in my life.
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Paranoia, Panic, Self-Talk and Persistence.
Another incident at work triggers paranoia, pessimism and panic in me. This is the story of how I used positive self-talk to cope with my feelings and reactions to the situation.
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You can’t believe everything you tell yourself.
The tale of my arrogant attempt to save the soul of a priest and how God taught me to question the excuses I give myself for my own behaviour.
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Wrestling with my conscience and my ethics.
In this entry I wrestle with the question of how I can be a good psychologist and uphold the ethics of my profession without being a bad Christian who keeps her "light" hidden?
