A friend of mine once told me that his mum has been suffering in depression for a long time. He shared with me how this affected the entire family. It had been a very difficult season for the family and my friend had been struggling on a daily basis to keep up with the turmoil at home.
Looking at the entire family get torn down was painful and yet a mystery. I asked my friend one day, how did his mum fall into depression. He told me the most bizarre story ever. His mum had suddenly fallen ill and was asked to go through a battery of tests to understand what was going wrong. The reports got considerably delayed and caused her a great deal of anxiety. Finally, when the reports came through they were all clear and by then his mother fell into depression because of the unreasonably long wait.
A reason so trivial can alter a person's life and rob one of the abundant life JESUS died to give us. Ever so often I too am guilty of mismanaging and exaggerating my emotions. I give my feelings and my fears the highest place and way too much importance. When someone says something mean and hurtful I rehearse it so many times in my mind and repeat it so many times with my lips that its difficult to forget it even when I really want to.
Mismanaged disappointment leads to depression. And the only way to manage disappointment is to give it to JESUS. HE asks us to give HIM all of our disappointments, cares, burdens and laborings because...
1. HE cares enough to handle them
2. HE is strong enough to fight them
3. HE is wise enough to solve them
So why wait, why waste time let's just let HIM be GOD and handle our GOD sized trials from now on :-)
Looking at the entire family get torn down was painful and yet a mystery. I asked my friend one day, how did his mum fall into depression. He told me the most bizarre story ever. His mum had suddenly fallen ill and was asked to go through a battery of tests to understand what was going wrong. The reports got considerably delayed and caused her a great deal of anxiety. Finally, when the reports came through they were all clear and by then his mother fell into depression because of the unreasonably long wait.
A reason so trivial can alter a person's life and rob one of the abundant life JESUS died to give us. Ever so often I too am guilty of mismanaging and exaggerating my emotions. I give my feelings and my fears the highest place and way too much importance. When someone says something mean and hurtful I rehearse it so many times in my mind and repeat it so many times with my lips that its difficult to forget it even when I really want to.
Mismanaged disappointment leads to depression. And the only way to manage disappointment is to give it to JESUS. HE asks us to give HIM all of our disappointments, cares, burdens and laborings because...
1. HE cares enough to handle them
2. HE is strong enough to fight them
3. HE is wise enough to solve them
So why wait, why waste time let's just let HIM be GOD and handle our GOD sized trials from now on :-)
wow so true..keep posting
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