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Bad Advice Wednesday: Avoid Literary Postpartum Depression
So for weeks, months, maybe years you have been pushing toward the end of the book you are writing. It has been your main goal, your driving purpose. Not a few times each day you fantasize about being done. What could be better? It sounds like heaven.
And this morning, miracle of miracle, you have finally finished. You’re done! Maybe you will drink some champagne and tell some people and try to make an occasion of it. But maybe you also feel, instead of elation, a kind of depression setting in. Immediately. What the hell is this?
What is the…
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Ten years ago, I left vocational ministry due to several bad experiences that left my family hurt and confused. The time away was a real blessing from the Lord, but for a while, I rejected the “institutional” church entirely. I bought into the thinking that the only faithful Christians were those wh
