Blogging about Faith, Labyrinths, Mental Illness, and More
Reflections by Michael J. Scholtes, Author / Pastor / Speaker
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Previously on… During my first semester of college, I went through a deep depression. I was in a great deal of emotional pain and guilt, blaming myself and hating myself so much, that it seemed like the only way out was suicide. I was scared to keep on living. But…
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Forty-Six
I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. I love this story. I first heard about this on the TV show Ripley’s Believe It or…
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Forty-Five
When I was a kid, we had a record player that had four settings: 16, 33, 45, and 78. These numbers, as anyone over a…
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Forty-Four
When I hear the number forty-four, I think of President Obama. It’s funny — I never thought of Reagan as forty, or Clinton as forty-two. But…
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Forty-Three
The youngest person to become president of the United States was Teddy Roosevelt, who was a 42-year-old Vice-President when William McKinley was assassinated. But the…
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I’m Michael, the author of this blog. I search for meaning through walking labyrinths, through exploring my Christian faith and my experience of depression, through preaching, and through writing about it for you.
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