Last January I caught Eric underneath our dry, sagging Christmas tree with a bottle of wine in his hand. “Are you feeding the tree wine?” I asked him. “If it’s as depressed as I am, it could use some,” he replied and showed me the two ounces of water left in the bottle. That’s a…

Dear God, I take comfort in the words of Isaiah (8:23—9:3) that I read this week: Anguish has taken wing, dispelled is darkness: for there is no gloom where but now there was distress. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of the gloom…

Beyond Blue reader and group member Marquos (find his homepage here) beautifully expresses this journey of coming to love yourself in his poem, “Butterfly Fields,” which I found on his blog (http://madspirituality.blogspot.com). He’s a beautiful writer, and I think many of you will be touched by his other posts as well. Butterfly Fields I’ve looked…

I’m proud to announce that Beyond Blue reader and group member Dawn Andrea (get to her homepage by clicking here) has started a new group called “Women Who Hurt Themselves and Those Who Love Them.” She writes about why she started this group in one of her journal entries: Hi my friends; As you’ve read…

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