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Year of Gratitude- 2013

By amarettosour · New reply yesterday at 10:46 pm
Journal · 364 replies
Happy New Years To All Inspire Members! I have decided to start a journal for gratitude for the new year. 2012 is behind us and its time to move forward. I know that life has it's challenges and I have ...

Losing Your Faith

By chaplainstevens · New reply yesterday at 4:18 pm
Journal · 20 replies
I used to always wonder how a person could "lose" thier faith, that was when I was young and strong, being in chronic pain and illness the last 11 years helps me better understand HOW a person can lose ...

Five million

By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
Journal · 205 replies
Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

Loneliness of Bereavement.

By meggi · New reply May 15, 2013
Discussion in Life after a loss · 11 replies
Why is it that all those people who express undying support immediately after the funeral suddenly become unavailable when one needs them? All those numbers given to one immediately after the funeral......Call ...

Read Psalm 13

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 13, 2013
Journal · 3 replies
if you are in pain and contemplating suicide I understand...read Psalm 13 David felt the same way too...but David realized in the last verse that he could trust in the salvation of The Lord to help him ...

New article: Mom's virtual cancer family helps daughter cope with loss

By John2 · Posted May 12, 2013
Journal · 0 replies
From: John Novack, Communications Director, Inspire Dear members, I'm writing to share with you a new article on NBC's TODAY.com, "Mom's virtual cancer family helps daughter cope with loss." You can read ...

Surviving Grief Isn't Easy

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 11, 2013
Discussion in The grieving process · 6 replies
Surviving grief is not as easy as it sounds because everything brings us back to the point of our pain. My mother died 5 years ago and I had to pack up her belongings and clean out her apartment. Every ...

Demons at My Door

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 10, 2013
Journal · 35 replies
One thing I have been wrestling with MOST of my life from childhood until the present is depression. I don't discuss it much because most of my Christians friends act like depression is a SIN. Being chronically ...

New Adventure

By stanifa · New reply May 8, 2013
Journal · 16 replies
It has been 19 months soon when Mike left us to be with our Lord and teach him how to fish!! I always say he's gone fishing. He loves to fish. May 24 I will be having a complete knee replacement which ...

Natural Things to Help Relieve Stress

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 7, 2013
Journal · 4 replies
1. Soothing Music 2. Exercise 3. Give and get hugs 4. Sex (Yes sex) 5. Singing 6. Meditation 7. Prayer 8. Screaming ...

A light in the midst of a nightmare

By love4t · New reply May 7, 2013
Journal · 3 replies
A brief history of my husband of 11 years battle. Terry was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma (probable origin of the lung) on Jan. 28, 2013. He was 46 years old. He had a cough and congestion for a month ...

2 years

By DoralgrL02 · New reply May 6, 2013
Journal · 5 replies
Hi everyone, Tomorrow May 5th is 2 yrs. ago I lost my loving husband, best friend, soul mate. It has been a roller coaster ride in those 2 yrs. I want to thank the Inspire people here. If not for all ...

The Little Boy

By serenity1825A · New reply May 6, 2013
Journal · 9 replies
This was shared with me today, and I want to share it with all of you! So many valuable lessons to be learned! Grab Kleenex! Laura http://academictips.org/blogs/moral-tale -the-little-boy ...

MISSING MY BABYBOY

By cocobrown-86 · New reply May 5, 2013
Discussion in Life after a loss · 2 replies
HELLO EVERYONE. I LOST MY ONLY SON FROM A CAR ACCIEDENT ON SEPT 17,2005. ITS LIKE YESTERDAY TO ME. I TRY TO BE STRONG ABOUT IT I HAVE SO MANY MOMENTS ABOUT HIM AND THE ACCIDENT I MISS HIM SO MUCH. I GO ...

God Knows When We Have Had Enough

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 24 replies
I had a case where a Korean lady (who was a devout Christian) had Cancer in her hip bones and lower spine, she was in excruciating pain, her husband also a Christian would not give consent for her to ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 84 replies
As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Power of Forgiveness!

By chaplainstevens · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 2 replies
One thing I have learned from working at a Psych Hospital is reading a patients charts (background history) explains a LOT, we ALL have baggage in our past and often that baggage dictates our emotional ...

Not a Journal but blogs!

By American_Bedu · New reply May 2, 2013
Journal · 7 replies
Instead of journaling, I created two separate blogs. The first is American Bedu www.americanbedu.com American Bedu was created in 2006 and where I write daily posts on the life, culture, customs and traditions ...

Suicide affects all those close to the person

By charlottesweb · New reply May 1, 2013
Journal · 3 replies
Nici-Nicole, your family are in my prayers, Thank You for sharing your situation. I am Bipolar and have thought many times about suicide. I have had on and off again thoughts of it, but I am VERY happy ...

7 Steps to Spiritual Renewal

By chaplainstevens · New reply April 30, 2013
Journal · 13 replies
1. Use personal prayer and/or meditation. This is quiet time to start to develop time for yourself and to assess how things are going in your life. Even Jesus needed to get alone and meditate. Jesus even ...

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