![]() I read this verse this morning: God helped them as they fought. giving Him your dreams and trusting Him to bring beauty for ashes. Going to the Lord in worship and allowing your heart to break before Him. This is where the battlefield truly lies my dear friends. Depression is not fatal as long as we continue to go to the Lord. The Holy Spirit still brings comfort and encouragement. I recently shared in our Longest Night service at church about how in deep despair I cried out to the Lord in worship and found Him there during the 4 years of my first wife's illness. I have found, and I continue to find, that life can only be found in the Lord. it has not been easy for this onetime fundamentalist. giving up on my life goals has brought darkness. needing to change has been cause for depression. In all this I have had to change and change has not come easy for me. In 2002 my beautiful wife Ann was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. I started experiencing health problems in 1999 that severely limited my ability to walk and exercise. Watching my son and daughter struggle with their mother's death has probably been the hardest and most depressing of all things in my life. Family life has often been brutal since my first wife's heart failure in 1990 and her death in 1994. Honestly, family events have devastated me over the years. ![]() ![]() I wish that I wasn't so familiar with depression. Depression hits the best of us and, if we allow it, depression will help us change. First I have to say that anyone who has read the Psalms understands that dark times and seasons are not reserved for the ungodly. So, as a follow-up to my post entitled Discouragement is Depressing I wanted to talk a bit about depression in the first person. Someone recently told me that they were surprised to hear that I struggled with depression.
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