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I am in a situation where I have lost my health insurance and will be getting a new insurance policy stating April 1st. I cannot afford to refill a mental health medication without insurance because it costs hundreds of dollars without insurance. My doctor offered to switch me to a different...

I have been watching church services online for a local church that I have been interested in joining. I had not attended in person yet because we have had high numbers of Covid cases and most members of this church are not wearing masks or social distancing. I was waiting for lower Covid...

I have a great deal of anxiety about falling because I have unstable knees that dislocate. This has caused me to fall a lot in the past and have some serious injuries both to my knees and to other parts of my body. In the last two month or so the anxiety has gotten worse. Sometimes it is...

My youngest turned 18 back in November, and it completely slipped my mind about his need to register for Selective Service (military draft). He did it today, but I'm so worried about a penalty for not doing it with in 30 days of his 18th birthday. It was an honest mistake, just forgotten. He did...

Does your age make you feel insecure when it comes to trying to find someone to date or possibly marry? I'm in my mid-forties, and I know that's not terribly old, but it does make a difference in my physical abilities, especially since I started life with some physical disability and had...

I have been wanting to switch to this way of eating, and have tried some, but I find it difficult. One of the reasons is that the flavors are more intense than I like. In general I like my food to be bland by most people's standards. Another problem is that I can't have some of the food that...

I'm never sure how you are supposed to do this exactly. Do you read it over and over? Memorize it and then think about it? When I try to meditate on Scripture my mind wonders unless I'm writing it down. I'll take a verse and write it over and over repeatedly.

My kid was hired for a new job. The orientation is on Friday, but we are having a severe winter storm, and there is concern about being able to be there for the orientation on Friday. Please pray for wise decisions, safety, or rescheduling.

I have anxiety and intrusive paranoid thought that I take medication for. However, I am experiencing a new wave of this and I feel panic attacks coming on. I just keep feeling like something horrible is wrong, and I feel restless like I should be doing something about it. I'm stuck at home...

I have a great fear of falling because I have fallen a lot throughout my life due to unstable knees. I have had some serious injuries because of it. I am particularly afraid of slipping because my knees can't take the stress of a slip and will dislocate. I'm often afraid of getting hurt very...

I am currently employed, but not earning enough. Please pray that I can have a new job that will pay enough that I'm physically capable of doing. I have applied for an office job that will pay more than I earn now, and I hope to hear from them this week. Thank you.

The title sums up the whole discussion topic. I was wondering if the United Methodist Church teaches that you could lose your salvation or if they believe it is always secure no matter what.

I have noticed significant difference in what and how I read. When I was younger I would binge and read whole books in a day or two. A lot of it was fiction. I would read some self-help which actually did help, but I was selective about them and only picked ones that was for something I was...

I grew up attending a Southern Baptist Church then branched out to other denominations in my 20's and 30's. I have not attended a church regularly in several years, the last two years has partially been because of the pandemic. I have been watching some online off and on. I have had a hard time...

I have anxiety, dissociation disorder, and unwanted paranoid thoughts. I take medication. For about a month or so I have had an excessive amounts of the intrusive paranoid thoughts, a lack of emotional comfort, and this sense of impending doom where I feel like something really bad is going to...

Tonight I will be starting a second job, and I'm grateful for the increase in income. I do have some worries about it though. I work as a caregiver for clients who have developmental disabilities and this second job is the same kind of work for a different agency. I was attacked by a client...

I've been struggling with this lately that I have been trying to break free of. There are some prayers that I pray a lot, repetitively, continuing to knock. After a while the words become habit and I have found that my mind starts to drift away while I speak the words without thinking or...

I have been divorced for 13 years. I have confident that it was the best option given the circumstances. We don't have much contact with each other and I prefer it that way, except his lack of involvement was difficult for the kids. This year my youngest turned 18. That means child support...

I wanted to share this video by psychiatrist, Dr. Tracey Marks. I watch her videos for other purposes and she covers many topics, but I stumbled on this one while looking for others. This is a very good video about why some people seem to end up in relationships with the same kind of person...

I've been reading a book titled "The Lion of Judah: How Jesus Completes Biblical Judaism and Why Judaism and Christianity Separated." by Rabbi Kirt A Schneider (Jewish-Christian Evangelist) It explains some early church history and how Jews clashed with each other, with Rome, and with Gentile...