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A Parent’s Guide: Checking Your Child Into a Psychiatric Hospital or Treatment Center

A Parent’s Guide: What to do when Your Child Experiences a Mental or Behavioral Health Crisis.

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Experiencing Jesus This Season

How will you experience Jesus this Christmas season? I have been thinking about this question lately.  In an unprecedented year, with an unprecedented virus, Jesus is still the same as He has always been.  But how do we experience him, and how does he show up for us? As many couples do, my husband and …

by daperretupdated on December 4, 2020December 4, 2020Leave a Comment on Experiencing Jesus This Season

Land of the Living

, “I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!  Wait for the LORD, be strong, and let your heart take courage;  wait for the LORD!”~Psalm 27: 13 Anybody else struggling with Fall scheduling?  Making schooling decisions, business decisions, keeping social commitments rather than sinking into …

by daperretupdated on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020Leave a Comment on Land of the Living

The Next Right Thing…Today

Impossible decisions.  Unexpected situations.  We are all here, aren’t we?  I find myself daily second guessing so many things, especially schooling for my children and how to schedule my music students this Fall.  In person or virtual – how many times do I say those words now on a daily basis?  And honestly, I always …

by daperretupdated on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020Leave a Comment on The Next Right Thing…Today

Taking Inventory

This Spring has turned our world upside down, hasn’t it?  So many changes all at once.  So many challenges about how to navigate schooling, work, living in masks, and now how to re-enter society.  And crazy enough, I don’t know if I am ready to move on out of this time of a home-bound, restricted, …

by daperretupdated on May 25, 2020May 25, 2020Leave a Comment on Taking Inventory

A Marathon of Discomfort

This past weekend I was suppose to run a marathon. Instead, I ran a sunny, laughter filled 11 miles with my running partners.  Like many Spring plans, training came to a screeching halt 9 weeks ago when I could no longer run the long miles with my running partner, and the uncertainty of race day …

by daperretupdated on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020Leave a Comment on A Marathon of Discomfort

Un-Wasted Suffering

I have had two sweet friends this Spring lose babies due to miscarriage.  I say due to miscarriage because that is the medical name given when the baby dies in utero.  But is that really what is the cause?  Every once in a while my kids ask why our third child died in miscarriage. How …

by daperretupdated on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020Leave a Comment on Un-Wasted Suffering

Is There Purpose in Pain and Suffering? Part 1

2020 will be a year for the history books.  A year that will change our entire world.  A year that woke us all up to the value of hand washing with soap (Yes, kids, I really did mean use soap.  Sigh.).  A year where families regained all the missed time together due to busy schedules.  …

by daperretupdated on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020Leave a Comment on Is There Purpose in Pain and Suffering? Part 1

#365daysofselfcare

Hitting Bottom Last November, I sat in tears with my son’s therapist, at the residential treatment center where he had been living for over a year.  Lack of sleep that week had turned into despair, as we continued to face uncertainty about whether or not he could move home. The despair began to snowball into …

by daperretupdated on April 21, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a Comment on #365daysofselfcare

Tracing Rainbows

“O Joy, that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to Thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain That morn shall tearless be.” George Mattheson’s hymn, “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go” has been a constant thread in my head these last few …

by daperretupdated on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020Leave a Comment on Tracing Rainbows

The Mover of Mountains

To the Mover of Mountains: I see you. I see your mountains, your majestic peaks Your breathtaking vistas that you have painted With a hand that can wield a sword And can wipe a tear In the power of the storm And in the lacey labyrinth of a snowflake In your detailed care of creation …

by daperretupdated on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020Leave a Comment on The Mover of Mountains

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Davina Perret
Davina Perret

Whether you are looking for music lessons, or here to find encouragement, I am glad you have stopped by! My writing touches on topics of parenting special needs, living with mental health struggles, juvenile delinquency, living with Lupus, spiritual reflection and Biblical teaching. Like a typical Enneagram 3, I have my hands in a lot of pots (too many my husband would say!), and am learning along with the rest of you, how to fully be who God has created me to be.

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  • A Parent’s Guide: Checking Your Child Into a Psychiatric Hospital or Treatment Center
  • A Parent’s Guide: What to do when Your Child Experiences a Mental or Behavioral Health Crisis.
  • Seeing Jesus in Job
  • Experiencing Jesus This Season
  • Land of the Living
  • #Hope*Writers Challenge Day 2 = Progress
Progress.  What does that have to do with Luke 6:42?  The Christian life is all about changing, progressing, being renewed spiritually, becoming more like Jesus.  In our world of unrest, finger pointing and playing the blame game, I am brought back to my part in all of it.  What can I do?  What is my part?  I want to glorify God in all that I do, I want to love my husband and children well, I want to make a positive impact on the world around me.  How do I do that?  The practical list of to do’s are often reading Scripture, praying, asking God to search my heart and show me where I am in the wrong, and having honest conversations with those closest to me and allowing them to speak truth into my life.  BUT-or maybe it is an AND - at the end of the day if I can truly look at the log in my own eye - the log that hinders me from viewing the world correctly, that skews my opinions and causes knee-jerk reactions, that is so obtrusive that all I can do is self-preserve and self-protect, and above all it is my pride- if I can remove that pride-soaked log through confession and repentance before casting any sort of judgment on others, then I believe that is truly what the world needs from me. That is at the root of progress.
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  • #Hope*Writers Challenge Day 1= New You.Lamentations 5: 21-”Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored!”Restore us, cleanse us, lead us to repentance.  Soften our hearts and give us courage to be humble.  Take out our hard hearts of stone, and replace them with soft and malleable hearts of flesh. Hearts of flesh that respond to your Holy Spirit, and reflect your Son, Jesus.  You must do the work of changing our hearts.  We must do the work of uncurling the grip we hold on our hearts in self-protection and self-preservation.  Help us to open our hands to you and yield all that we are and all that we long to be.  Only then can we do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with you, our God.  Amen.
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  • New Blog Post.  A Parent's Guide:  Checking Your Child Into a Psychiatric Hospital or Treatment Facility.  I share a lot of my experiences, insights, and resources.  Please tag someone you know needing this information.  Shared Suffering Brings STRENGTH.  Link in my Bio. #mentalhealth #childrenwithmentalhealthrisk #psychiatrichospitalization #residentialtreatmentcenter #nami #residentialtreatmentfacility #sharedsuffering #mentalhealthhelp
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  • A fun family Christmas at home.
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