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I'm a retired pastor working on my fourth career in retirement. I was an English teacher and then a sales manager running away from God's call to be a pastor, a little like the prophet Jonah. Then, God sent me to seminary and to seven churches in twenty-seven years of ministry until he sent me into retirement to combine all my careers into one, writing and publishing books with a spiritual flavor.
My senior year in seminary was marked by the beginning of my major depression, which lasted six years in my first two churches. I then had to take a medical retirement. God used psychological means to get me in touch with my anger (buried in my unconscious mind) about our second child's death with leukemia and other losses.
Then, he healed my anger and depression after 8 1/2 months of lamenting almost 33 years ago. It was a permanent peace that he gave me, according to Philippians 4:6,7. At the depth of my depression, chronic pain began. God left it as my thorn in the flesh.
I've been amazed that God has made me into a published author in both fiction and nonfiction. <staff edit>
My senior year in seminary was marked by the beginning of my major depression, which lasted six years in my first two churches. I then had to take a medical retirement. God used psychological means to get me in touch with my anger (buried in my unconscious mind) about our second child's death with leukemia and other losses.
Then, he healed my anger and depression after 8 1/2 months of lamenting almost 33 years ago. It was a permanent peace that he gave me, according to Philippians 4:6,7. At the depth of my depression, chronic pain began. God left it as my thorn in the flesh.
I've been amazed that God has made me into a published author in both fiction and nonfiction. <staff edit>
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