Your Life DOES Matter!
Good parents could never stop loving their child. They never cease working to provide the very best for their child, and could never give up hope nor abandon him or her. Yet when people become depressed, sometimes it seems that God has done those very things to us.
Life is one discouragement after another for some folks. Some live with a sense of fear and guilt, and their days are filled with hopelessness. Others of us feel unforgivable, unlovable, or that our life is without value and is pointless.
A feeling of longterm hopelessness is often called depression, and there is a process which restores hope.
When we start out on a trip, we have to know two things: where we are now, and the direction we need to go to get to our destination. How fast we travel is only important if we are going the right direction. In the area of life and growth, God is always more concerned with direction than with speed.
He would rather have us take one small step in the right direction (toward Him) than have us put into action some great plan of improvement (busy-ness, even church busy-ness) without real change taking place.
Ask Him about one small thing you can do today do change the direction of your life, then do it gladly.
Soon to be posting my new and updated Depression Screening Questionaire.
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