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Musings & Miscellany by Erin Mount

Eavesdrop on my thoughts about faith, suffering, and mental health and find out what I'm currently listening to, reading, and loving!

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Sep 22, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    Monthly Miscellany: September Edition (opens the original)

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    If you’re new here, welcome! This is my monthly(ish) recap of things that I love, whether it’s a book, podcast, song, or nail polish color. If I love it, you’re going to hear about it! I love hearing what you’re enjoying as well, so please feel free to leave a comment or hit reply to this email and share your faves with me! Life LatelyRecently at dinner one night our older daughter Charlotte said that in her class at school the topic of family meals came up. Charlotte was shocked to learn that t

  2. Issue · Aug 28, 2026

    Jesus, Only Jesus (opens the original)

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    Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWhen the demands of the day press down on me, when the way is blocked, the path hard to see, give me Jesus. When hope seems far and despair looms near, when my thoughts run rampant and I’m drowning in fear, give me Jesus. When the simplest of tasks becomes weight I can’t bear, when I’m lonely and wonder if anyone cares, give me Jesus. When my sin consumes me and buries me in shame, when I can’t even stand the sight of my fra

  3. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Monthly Miscellany: August Edition (opens the original)

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    If you’re new here, welcome! This is my monthly(ish) recap of things that I love, whether it’s a book, podcast, song, or nail polish color. If I love it, you’re going to hear about it! I love hearing what you’re enjoying as well, so please feel free to leave a comment or hit reply to this email and share your faves with me! Life LatelyIt’s hard to believe it, but my girls have already been in school for over a week. I now have a fourth grader and a tenth grader, which is also hard to believe. Th

  4. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    Admission (opens the original)

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    The poem below was originally published in Fathom Mag back in 2020. I wrote it as a reflection on my first time in a psychiatric hospital in 2018, but by the time I wrote it, I had been hospitalized two more times and also spent a month at a residential facility. I didn’t want to admit myself to the hospital, but I also didn’t know another way to escape the hold that suicidal thoughts had on me. All the things I’d been trying—therapy, medication, prayer—were not bringing relief, and I became obs

  5. Issue · Jul 14, 2026

    When You Cannot Sing, Let the Church Sing for You (opens the original)

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    I stood in the sanctuary, surrounded by voices lifted in song, and I felt tears threaten to stream down my face. The words of one of my favorite hymns, “The Solid Rock,” were on the screen, and my voice cracked as I tried to sing the second verse:“When darkness seems to hide His face, I rest on His unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.” There are tim

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