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“Why me?” “Why is this happening?” “What did I do to deserve this?” “That’s it. I’m done. It’s over. I’ve lost everything.” “Please, God, please, please forgive whatever I’ve done and make this go away. I’ll do anything you say.” This is a very short list of the thoughts, pleadings, and prayers that I and more than seven billion people on the planet have experienced throughout our lives. When we are at our lowest and most desperate times in our lives, they consume our every t

According to Dictionary.com , the definition of “intrude” is putting oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is unwelcome or uninvited. Sound familiar? It should. Have you ever struggled with someone who purposely put themselves in a situation you were in without being invited? If you’ve ever struggled with anger, anxiety, depression, self-doubt, poor self-esteem, and especially thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself, then, whether you are aware of it or not

God has blessed me with a wonderful wife and three amazing children, and it is because of those four people that I have a lifetime of warm, loving memories that I cherish and that, at times, sustain me. My youngest child, my daughter, has struggled with oppressive levels of anxiety most of her life. For those of you who have not had any serious issues with anxiety, I can tell you that, mentally, there are very few things worse than the crippling levels of fear and panic that