by Emily Wierenga | Dec 6, 2013 | christmas, depression, disordered eating, faith, feast, holidays, mental illness, prayer, social anxiety
(Guest Post by Anna Elmira, a dear friend of mine who’s battled the same eating issues I have, on how holidays can be hard for those with mental illnesses. Please welcome her?) “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” Psalm 119: 105. I sit... by Emily Wierenga | Oct 28, 2013 | Allume, blogging, christian, competition, conference, faith, followers, God, prayer, publishing, writing
There are candles on the tables and the room is dimly lit, pillows along the wall and chairs with women, bent over their journals or over their hands, some sobbing and others just writing.It’s Allume, and I’ve signed up for the prayer team and for weeks God’s... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 30, 2013 | Brian Holloway, church, dream, faith, Generation X, generation Y, Generation Z, millenials, open letter, potential, prayer, Stephentown 300, yuppies
Dear Generation Y,You have been called Yuppies. You have been called Millenials and Echo Boomers and Generation 9/11. You’ve been called lazy and entitled and special and spoiled.And 300 of you proved the latter this past week when you broke into a house in... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 27, 2013 | baby, children, daughter, faith, God, grief, infertility, miracle, miscarriage, prayer, pregnancy
I have a memory of my daughter, and yet, she never was.We weren’t supposed to be able to have children. Doctors told me when I was 13 and dying on the hospital bed from eating too little that I probably wouldn’t ever conceive, and then, when I relapsed as... by Emily Wierenga | Sep 11, 2013 | #duckdynasty, #imperfectprose, cancer, Duck Dynasty, family, hunting, kay, love, marriage, phil, prayer, Robertsons, squirrels, vows, wedding, willie
Please note, I do not approve of guns or hunting or squirrels being killed. My father in law, however, does.So when you’re sitting down at a table beneath the trees five hundred yards from your inlaws’ house and it’s Sunday, and you’ve said... by Emily Wierenga | Aug 28, 2013 | #imperfectprose, community, counseling, friendship, mentor, prayer, womanhood, women
God gave me a vision of her. I saw a woman who wore scarves and laughed a lot. And then she connected with me over Facebook, this counselor whom I’d met years earlier at a conference, and she asked me to write a book with her for wounded daughters, and I ended up...