Today we’re going to talk about my decision to go on medication for Bipolar and my experience with it so far. When I asked on Instagram if there was interest in hearing about this, I was surprised at the number of people who responded yes, so here we go!
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I’m old enough to remember merry-go-rounds on the playground. You could push your friends around, go slowly by yourself, or have a friend push you until the wind made your hair crazy and you felt sick. When it came time to slow it down, you would reach out your hand and let the bars lightly hit it as they flew past, walking the line between actually slowing it down and breaking your hand. They were a source of laughter but also a little scary and not the play of choice for someone like me who got dizzy easily.
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Have you ever thought to yourself, I wish God would show me what lesson He wants me to learn so I could get over this trial already?
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We as people love labels. For ourselves and others. We figure out how to view people, how to place them in boxes or groups by their label, or we even rank people by their labels.
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My favourite thing about this story is that John didn’t stay in despair alone. Instead of the constant wondering, he just asked. He just had that honest conversation with Jesus and told him all about his doubts. That’s when the comfort came.
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So here is Elijah, running through the wilderness until he comes to a juniper tree. He sits under the tree and asks something of God. He has one of the most honest conversations with God recorded in Scripture. He asks God to take away his life.
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This week as I was looking through my list of verses with the words one another, right at the bottom was a verse that jumped out at me. It’s I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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As with all things in life, I never know how much I have or how much I need what I have until it is taken away. If you’ve been around for the past three and half years, you know how much my new church has helped me to heal, how it has been a place I’ve purposely built strong community, that it’s the place I work and serve, that it has meant the world to my children, and how I couldn’t love it more.
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Did you have a best friend growing up? Maybe you’re an adult and still have a best friend. I had a tumultuous relationship with the whole best friend idea. Being homeschooled in a small church didn’t leave a lot of options for finding the perfect best friend. I cried a lot of tears during my teenage years over relationships that were less than ideal. I had some people that were really good friends, but that was back in the day when we had to write letters by hand. My world really opened up when email became a thing!
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The topic of one anothering naturally brings up a lot about suffering. We’ve been talking about how to weep with those who weep or how to encourage others who are suffering by singing to them. If life were all roses, we wouldn’t need each other nearly as much. Of course, we are to celebrate with those who have something to celebrate, laugh with those who are laughing, and rejoice with those who are rejoicing. But those seem to come a bit more naturally. It’s the suffering that’s hard to sit in. It’s when people are suffering that we need reminders of how to deal with it.
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Join Thelma Nienhuis and I as we talk about her journey through infertility, what she's learned through it, and how we can help our friends in the same struggle.
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But do we want to stay there? I don’t think so. I think Biblical lament is meant to lead us back to God and to the joy that can be found in our salvation.
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love and then continues to list off a whole list of ways we can do that. We could spend a whole season just in this passage. But one has kept returning to mind. Its found in verse 15. Weep with them that weep.
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Have you ever looked at a family and really wanted to be a part of it? Maybe you had a rough family growing up or you just weren’t super close and your best friend’s family seemed awesome. Or maybe it was just a part of that family that you wished for - being told you were loved, or the hugs, or the games, or the laughter.
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