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What is Christian doctrine? 

A man entrusted money to three servants. He assigned five bags of gold to the first, two to the second, and one to the last. 

This could only be God! That’s what crossed my mind when I stepped into the lecture hall at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). 

This is life isn’t it? You wake up, go to work, meet up with friends, serve at church, study, fix your car, do your laundry—the list goes on and on. 

Six years ago, I was stuck in a major spiritual rut.

What is Christian doctrine? 

In your family stories, are there hints or mentions of a Native family member? 

For the first twenty-two years of my life, I had a very normal relationship with food. And, though I knew a few people who’d had eating disorders, I didn’t really understand what caused them.

Then I developed one myself. It wasn’t until I started processing my own journey and heard stories from others who’d suffered for years that I began to realize how incredibly complex and multifaceted eating disorders are.

Last month, I sat in a room full of people and watched our group leader write on a white board the word each of us had identified as core to who we are. 

If we ourselves haven’t experienced a mental illness, most of us know someone who has.