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The Kingdom Come

My Serenity Prayer

I've been a disciple of Jesus for 28 years. This is about my experience living with mental illness within faith communities and struggling to make sense out of various scriptures that have caused me great harm as they were used by loving, well-meaning people in an effort to help me over the years. I actually self-harmed more with scriptures than anything else in my life. 

I don't know how to reconcile all the verses I'm going to reference in this piece with my mental illness. However, I am placing my hope in the belief that God is love and He intends the Bible to heal, not destroy. I believe it's destructive to treat mental illness as sin. 

I'm continuing to seek God and connection with people of faith while at the same time protecting myself from things that harm me.


Harmoney Hope