New Wine

God is creating me anew. There is new wine. It isn’t “dead Carly” and it isn’t “depressed Carly”, it is a version of myself that is filled with the Holy Spirit and can sing a new song out of the Valley of Death that has been my last year.

The Lion’s Den

I love goals- I DON’T dig New Year’s resolutions. They set objectives that are too far off, too easy to forget or put off. What I like to do is set a word of the year. My word this year was LIONHEARTED. I thought, “I’m going to overcome my depression, get strong as steel, grow…

When Grief Becomes Welled-Up Anger

There were several times during my manic depression (September-January) that I felt extreme anger. Punch a wall, break a plate, scream into a pillow anger; Anger wants us to fight when there is no one to hit, to lash out when there is no enemy. Anger is a natural part of the grieving process just…