Challenges to Wholeness

Challenges to Wholeness


Recovery

Addiction and Recovery
Devotions that offer help and insight for the daily battle against addiction

Days of Grace: Meditations and Practices for Living with Illness by Mary C. Earle

Living with Illness
Living with illness certainly feels nothing like a blessing. In the 30 text and audio meditations and practices that comprise Days of Grace,  Mary Earle—who has suffered for years from chronic pancreatitis—suggests that illness might be filled with grace as well as pain, with Christ's presence as well as fear.

Keeping Money in Balance
Strategies for managing your finances using a spiritual perspective

Holiday Stress
Ways to cope when the holidays feel less than holy

A RAGING QUESTION
We are taught to be loving and humble, so what are we to do with our anger?

BROKEN, WE HEAL
It is often by acknowledging our own wounds that we gain empathy enough to help others.

IS GOD PRESENT IN ILLNESS?
Though illness is never welcomed, there are ways to move past the pain and learn more about ourselves and God's love.

RECOGNIZING DEPRESSION
If you find yourself with several of the symptoms that indicate depression, and they last more than a few days, there is help.

SURVIVING THE STORMS IN LIFE
Our goodness or our faith cannot insulate us from the common experiences of life. Tragic events come into our lives regardless of who we are. And they sometimes strike so suddenly.

THE GREAT TEMPTATION
We all have to fight the temptation to try to run the world, or at least that part of the world that is close to us and that affects our daily lives.

THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF GUILT
Although no one wants to feel guilty, guilt can help us do those things that don't come easily.

WINNING IS FOR LOSERS
Knowing how to lose is a prerequisite to winning, because it is only through the mistakes that you make along the way that you learn how to win.