Today I wanted to share with you my testimony as shared with our College Group Sunday School Class this morning. Let me rewind for you a little over ten years ago, when I was in your seat, listening to my College Pastor. Only my College Pastor was someone by the name of Jay Thomas (He… Read More Bulimia in the College Seat

Contributed by Sandy Crist I love stories of the handsome prince rescuing the beautiful princess from the fiery dragon and living happily ever after. I suppose I had tried to recreate this little fantasy of a perfect life, thinking if I did everything right, life would be perfect. This sounds a wee bit like I… Read More Bulimics and Their Mothers: #3 Fairy Tale or Nightmare

The first post by my mother!… “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.” What is up with that? Why are children subjected to such a story? Did anyone ever like that nursery rhyme? It was… Read More Bulimics and Their Mothers: #1 Messiness and Brokenness

I am deeply excited to introduce to the blog a mini series in which both my mom and I will be contributing. The series, as you will have already seen, is “Bulimics and Their Mothers”. I am so excited to introduce her to you!!! My mom was the first one to impart to me a… Read More Bulimics and Their Mothers: Intro

So often I find myself tying my worth to other things. Trying to validate my worth not only in my own eyes, but in the eyes of my God, and in the eyes of others. But Jesus calls us to rest from this exhausting, joy-sapping pursuit. Jesus is worthy. So what is going on here? What… Read More Aubrey’s Story #29: Worthiness and Control

I did not personally know anyone who had come out of the bondage of purging, let alone someone who had been a purging pastor’s wife. I had no one to ask what life after purging might look like. I was not sure if what I was experiencing was “normal.” Living near my parents at that… Read More Aubrey’s Story #28: Eating is a messy business

The holidays have come and gone, and February is almost here! I hope your Christmas and New Year’s was filled with unhurried rest and peace. Those sound like wonderful goals for myself next year:0) I meant to take a picture of what I thought captured best a summary of our Christmas: a steady flow of… Read More Christmas Pieces

The promise of “fresh starts” and “new days” make a lot of losers out of us in the mid-afternoon and night. It is easy to embrace grace and mercy in the morning – in the quiet, in the solitary sparkle of an early morning. “His mercies are new every morning!” Yes, and amen. But His… Read More The Lie of Tomorrow

  Bulimia and Guilt’s Circle of Death If it is true that guilt and self-hate can never liberate, then why is it so easy to hire the two for the job of freedom? Often we do so without thinking about it – at least I do. They are the two that I quickly and easily… Read More Aubrey’s Story #27: Bulimia and Guilt’s Circle of Death

Tension. I had never felt it quite so deeply. I was celebrating the birth of so many new things in my life, and yet, I was mourning the death of my five-year companions at the same time. I grieved over the loss of food. The food had served many purposes. It had served as a… Read More Aubrey’s Story #26:Bulimia and Coffee