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It’s Nothing Personal
by Kari Scare
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Reacting People will hurt you. Sometimes the same person will hurt you repeatedly. What do you do? Do you get angry? Depressed? Bitter? Resentful? Beaten down? In my struggle to not...
Helping Someone Struggling with Depression
by Kari Scare
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Depressing Statistics During the holidays, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas, many people start to feel the opposite of what they’re supposed to feel. Instead of feeling joy and happiness, too many...
How to Help Those Struggling with Depression
by Kari Scare
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Be Ruth When I was at my most depressed, I received little to nothing of what others said or did to try and help me. I just couldn’t see anything...
Driven by Wisdom
by Kari Scare
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Double-Minded Exodus provides a study in human nature. The fickleness of the Israelites so well mirrors our own back-and-forth, up-and-down emotional mindsets. We, too, rail against change even when it’s...
Edification
by Kari Scare
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What is Edification? “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.” (Ephesians 4:29)...
Discover Encouragement and Determine Reality
by Kari Scare
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Discussing Discouragement Lack of progress. Politics. Stupidity. Illness. Aging. Unemployment. Failure. These things continuously discourage me. If I dwell on them too often and too deeply, I become depressed. Before...
Pursuing Encouragement Through Fellowship
by Kari Scare
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The Need for Fellowship Fellowship: The state of sharing mutual interests, experiences, activities, etc.; companionship; friendship As an introvert, spending time along come quite easily for me. As a writer,...
Defeating the Winter Blues
by Kari Scare
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The Doldrums While debate exists over the cause and even the existence of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), few doubt the impact of the dreary conditions of wintertime, especially those who...
Relationships, Faith, and Depression
by Kari Scare
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Relationships and Hope In my struggle to victory over depression, relationships that mattered to me or that I at least wanted to matter to me helped me have hope. The...
Pursuing Perfection, Part I
by Kari Scare
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Defining Perfectionism Perfect means complete or to complete thoroughly. Perfection is the state of being entirely without fault. A perfectionist is a person who is displeased by anything that does...