“As I stood over her and spent those last few minutes with her, blood was cascading down my legs and onto the floor. I didn't care - my womb was crying. Everything about me was crying. Watching them wheel her away broke me. My life ended then and there."
Lieryn Barnett is a covenant member of Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, NC. She has contributed articles to The Gospel Coalition and The Mighty, writing about her experiences with mental illness. She is also passionate about Biblical literacy and women teaching women. You can follow her on Twitter.
Charles Spurgeon once said, “The mind can descend far lower than the body, for in it there are bottomless pits. The flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds and no more, but the soul can bleed in ten thousand ways, and die over and over again each hour.”
