Today Jo shares some lessons from her childhood to administer Jesus’s antidote to phobias.

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Reading: Matthew 10:28

If you saw me last week, you’d have run a mile, because my face looked like the scariest Halloween mask you’ve ever seen. It was swollen, scarred, and bruised with blood dripping from bloodshot eyes. To reduce the pain, every twenty minutes I had to stop and put ice packs on my eyes for twenty minutes. It felt like I’ve just gone ten rounds with Tyson Fury. What happened to me?

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Reading: Psalm 119:18

Use God’s Story to stabilize your story in the midst of an unstable story.

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Reading: Isaiah 40:6-8

Today, Jo’s going East to see if there’s any truth in the story of Karma.

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Reading: Romans 12:19-21.

Jo De Blois is Chief of Staff at Puritan Reformed Seminary.

I rarely go to the movies, but a couple of Saturdays ago I went with Shona and Scot to watch the The Rescue, A National Geographic documentary that chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from a flooded cave system one mile inside a mountain in Northern Thailand.

It was a beautifully filmed and enthralling story. Even though we knew the end result beforehand, we were on the edge of our seats throughout. At some points I realized I had stopped breathing. As we talked afterwards, we couldn’t but ask, “What spiritual lessons can we learn from The Rescue?”

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Reading: Psalm 40:1-3

A couple of years ago I realized that I was really down. I was depressed

Why? Although there were some recent events that contributed, there were also some long-term causes that I had never fully recognized or addressed. But they were all related in some way to the problem of over-criticizing or judgmentalism.

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Reading: Matthew 7:1-2