> Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the beginning. This old commandment - to love one another - is the same message you have heard before. Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of

Now at this juncture, I could pretend that the things I have mentioned so far encompass my entire manic experience: An explosion of thoughts, words, and deeds, grounded in suppressed emotions. But in fact, these were only the tip of the iceberg: A fitting description, because such is all the

As I lay in bed recuperating over the course of the next 2 weeks, I began reflecting over the things I had declared so publicly while "out of my mind". I talked to friends and family who had shown concern, and was surprised to find that unlike me, most didn't

Proposing to my long lost ex-girlfriend on Facebook was not the first outrageous public statement I would make that day, neither was it the last. I would later go on to criticize the church we had attended, declare myself a belonging of God, and prophesy things I could not possibly

> The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason... - G.K. Chesterton [http://www.apologetics315.com/2013/04/gk-chesterton-on-arguing-with-madman.html] Looking back, I believe that my current journey began 2 years ago, when my then

> Alright then... Let's get on with it! Yup... this is how I've decided to start my story about my little journey of enlightenment. Why!? Because I've spent the last 2 weeks trying to figure out how to start this bloody story, and I still have no friggin idea! But more

> The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful consideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. * Philip Roth [http://www.