I’ll be honest. I have not been consistent with this devotional. Before I started posting again, my last post was almost three years ago. During that time I went through some life changes. Two of my kids got married, and one of them now has a kid and the other is pregnant. I experienced a couple of job changes and a season of unemployment. During the lockdown, I found myself without a job, stuck at home, and sitting on my backside most of the day playing video games. I slipped into a funk. I heard the phrase, “failure to thrive,” and that’s how I felt. I was just kind of there for a while. Existing. I’m not complaining or making excuses. That’s just how things were at the time, and I know I’m not alone in anything I experienced.
But the Lord is good and faithful. I have a good steady job and I am back to doing many of the things I did before the lockdown. And now, I’ve been thinking about what I’ve been doing with my life. I’m well into my middle years, and there are things I want to do…things I feel that the Lord is leading me to do. One of them is to bring back this blog. Despite my negligence, it is still getting visited. And while it’s not huge, the numbers tell me that there are ADHDers who need spiritual encouragement. Most of the sermons and Bible studies out there are aimed at neurotypical Christians. I want to encourage other ADHDers that Jesus loves us, understands us, and is on our side by sharing insights from the Bible that apply to us.
What about you? Have you had setbacks? Have you had failures? It’s not too late to make a comeback. If there one thing I know about ADHDers, it’s that we are a persistent lot. We may stumble, but we get up again, and again, and again. Don’t give up because God hasn’t given up on you.
While this verse doesn’t apply directly to what I just said, it is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. I hope you find it encouraging too.
Ecclesiates 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (NIV)
ADD: Attention Deficit Devotional 
“Despite my negligence, it is still getting visited. And while it’s not huge, the numbers tell me that there are ADHDers who need spiritual encouragement. Most of the sermons and Bible studies out there are aimed at neurotypical Christians. I want to encourage other ADHDers that Jesus loves us, understands us, and is on our side by sharing insights from the Bible that apply to us.”
❤️Bless you!✝️
I found your blog after Googling “Christian devotionals for people with ADHD.” and I’m thanking Jesus that you are still here and are posting again.
I’m a 68 year old homemaker and have had issues with ADD/ADHD my whole life. I became a believer when I was 20 and thought being made “a new creature in Christ” meant the problems I’d had for so long would gradually become a thing of the past.
They didn’t.
In the last 6 years I have been greatly burdened with trying to do all the “train your mind”, “discipline yourself”, “self-control”, etc. that the entire Bible commands (nags? 😉) us to do. It’s all stuff I’ve been trying to do all my life and have never really succeeded in doing. And as you said, and I have grown increasingly aware of, “Most of the sermons and Bible studies out there are aimed at neurotypical Christians.”
This morning, while reading devotionals and scripture I once again felt beaten down by being reminded that I’m supposed to be doing all those things constantly, every day, while God says that He is (somehow) “renewing your/my mind”
Not for the first time I tossed the devotional book, devotional flip calendars and little encouragement cards I surround myself with across the table and cried.
Then, as you said, “If there one thing I know about ADHDers, it’s that we are a persistent lot. We may stumble, but we get up again, and again, and again.” I got online to see if a devotional for ADHDers even existed.
AND HERE YOU ARE! 😃🙏✝️
Please, please, keep writing and helping us learn that Jesus and our Father really do understand what our problems are and will accept what we are able to do within all His commands to be so constantly disciplined and in control of our minds that don’t do any of those things well.
Finding your blog just might be what I need to help me not walk away from my faith in the Lord.