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Many Christians with mental illness carry a quiet equation — this is happening because I have done something wrong. The Bible refuses that equation. Jesus refused it. Part four of Radical Hospitality: Creating Room for Mental Wellness.

There is a person in your church who is no longer in your church. They have not left the faith. They have left the building. These are not the same thing. Part three of Radical Hospitality: Creating Room for Mental Wellness.

The meal train ends. The depression does not. Isaiah does not say send them food. He says bring them in. Part two of Radical Hospitality: Creating Room for Mental Wellness.

The hungry in your congregation are not always the ones with empty plates. The Lord's first instruction in Isaiah 58:7 is not fix their hunger. It is share your bread. Part one of Radical Hospitality: Creating Room for Mental Wellness.

You used to feel things. Now you feel nothing. You have not lost your faith. You have lost your feelings. These are not the same thing — and the church has, for a long time, taught us they were.

God won't give you more than you can handle. Everything happens for a reason. They meant well. The sentence sat in your chest for the rest of the afternoon, doing a quiet damage you could not name. The problem is not your faith.

You have taken from me friend and neighbour — darkness is my closest friend. Heman was not only in the dark. He was in the dark alone. The wound of being left is its own wound. Part four of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.

Anger at God is not the failure of faith. Apathy is. The angry person is still on the line. The apathetic person has hung up. Part three of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.

Most lament psalms turn at some point — yet I will trust, but you, O Lord. Psalm 88 has no pivot. It ends in the dark. The editors knew, and they left it. Part two of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.

Heman was a chief musician of the temple. He led worship for the king. By every external measure, his life was working — and he wrote one of the bleakest sentences in the Bible. Darkness is my closest friend. Part one of A Slow Walk Through Psalm 88.

Resilience a good quality. But somewhere along the way it became something you were supposed to have — and the moment it became a demand, the person who could not bounce back fast enough became, by definition, deficient.

The world is quietly walking away from hustle culture, and the church has not yet noticed. You are still going. The calendar is still full. And somewhere underneath, a question has started to surface — was this the shape it was supposed to take?