As I start 2018, I’m overcome with the realization that I am going to fail. I look at myself in the bathroom mirror as I squeeze into my workout clothes, feeling a lot like ground-up sausage being stuffed into a casing, and I tell my un-made-up face: you do this workout today. Don’t even look over the fence into tomorrow. Don’t listen to the voice in your head whispering “What if you fail?”There really is, after all, only today. Your job is to get up and try today. Continue reading
Red Vine Spirituality
Taylor K. Arthur balances Bipolar 1 Disorder, marriage, and motherhood with a nitty-gritty faith inspiring a twisted, blissful life.
Author: Taylor Arthur (page 1 of 49)
See, I have set the land before you; go in and take possession of the land that I swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them. Deuteronomy 1:8 Continue reading
For my dear, struggling, heart warrior-son:
Sometimes I don’t know how to help you but to put words down. God seems to talk to me through my fingers, charting a map through my fears, showing me the way home through this blog-tangle of words. Continue reading
Do feel trapped in a hopeless situation? Do you feel like there’s no way out, and God’s forgotten you? Do you wonder if there is any hope for your broken marriage, your upside down finances, your stalled career, your dissolved dreams? Well, come join me at the table, friend, and let’s reevaluate your position. From where I’m sitting, your story’s just starting to get good. Continue reading
Do you ever feel like you’re hitting the same wall again and again? That no matter how spiritual you think you’ve become, no matter how much counseling you get, you just keep making out with the pavement? Yeah. Me, too. But there’s hope. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. Hebrew 12:12-13 Continue reading
