I am Depressed

I hear this quite often, I’ve even said it myself, but why? It has never been true. Never once have I or anyone I know been depressed. We have all gone through a depression but we have never BEEN depressed.

One of the biggest distinctions we need to make in this life is not to so closely associate ourselves with our situation. What you’re going through is not who you are. If we associate ourselves with what we are going through how will we ever get through it? How will what is troubling us ever leave without taking the very thing we have tried most to protect……US?

Depression, sadness, loneliness, desperation, poverty, sickness, these are merely clouds in the sky of your life. The clouds will come and they will go. Sometimes they will fill the sky to the point that you feel like you will never see the sun again, but trust me when I tell you, you will. As these troubles fill our lives and we can’t seem to see through the clouds just keep on looking, keep on pushing, keep on working, and keep on praying. You will soon be able to see the sun again.

This life isn’t going to be easy, it isn’t going to be painless, it isn’t going to be perfect, but it can’t always be cloudy, it can’t always rain, it can’t always be hard, and if you look you will always be able to see the Son.

I love you.