A Woman Under the Influence: Part 2 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. ” [Matthew 5:11-12] “God is not a delusion,” reads the powder pink three-by-five notecard. Still tucked away inside the unsealed envelope, it rests in the top drawer of the built-in desk within my prayer closet. I had furiously jotted it down in the middle of the night in the midst of the manic episode that led to my bipolar diagnosis — the one that ended in an ambush outside the church that one fateful Sunday. Even though the thought of God not being a delusion seemed like a random notion at the time, when it sprang up into the foreground of the battlefield that was my mind, I remember feeling like I needed to get it down on record or something like that. I ...
