“I’m done. I’m just done.” Have you heard that lately? Have you said that lately? When a person gets on a negative roll, his emotional capacity will hit overload. The biblical phrase “who being past feeling” is so accurate. We feel so much at such a high level that we just stop. We’re done. Ephesians 4:19 describes those who have walked in the futility of their minds (see Believing a Fly By) and lived in a place of darkness until they are emotionally spent saying, “who

How many of you have those occasional bizarre thoughts go through your brain? Every person I have ever asked has that happen. Even so, we tend to believe what is going on in our heads. A healthy person will quickly identify the bizarre thoughts and cast them aside. But how do we handle the more normal thoughts that still are not healthy? Ephesians 4:17 tells us not to walk in the “futility” of our minds. As human beings, we are primarily spiritual. When fear (or any other

When the pain gets too great, many choose to stop feeling. They choose to shut down. They stop caring or connecting beyond functional levels. They live inside of an invisible barrier meant to filter out future pain. I am currently counseling two women as they walk through the pain of past miscarriages. Both have lived in partial shut down for years. Both are experiencing intense levels of pain right now. But, both are seeing new levels of relationships open up as they h