There is nothing like depression to make you feel alone.\u00a0 Alone is a terrible feeling… it is painful… and ultimately a terrible lie.<\/p>\n
You can walk with many through life and be guarded enough to never really let them in.\u00a0 Deflecting the offerings of love. You can believe that you can’t handle the risk of hurt… or you can discard the lies.<\/p>\n
In Christ I may not feel it but I am never really alone.\u00a0 Truth requires the stripping away of masks and the discarding of lies and the benefits we get from them.\u00a0 Pain is not to be feared.\u00a0 The fear will lead to more pain and pain that is more difficult to identify and discard.<\/p>\n
So speak, even SHOUT, truth aloud, speak life and love, all humbly before your God!\u00a0 Christ hears and answers, all in his time.\u00a0 It is amazing what happens to the dark when even a flicker of light comes in… how lies crumble as soon as truth emerges… how death has no sting as we find the source of eternal life.<\/p>\n
Walk with those Christ has given you, awake, aware and honest.\u00a0 Ask them to walk with you, holding you accountable, mentoring and encouraging you forward.<\/p>\n
Ask and receive the Spirit’s gifts, given to you to make it possible to walk tall through this world.\u00a0 Jesus’s intimate love is there, more real then the seen.\u00a0 Embrace the invisible…<\/p>\n
“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!”<\/em><\/p>\n Praise God if these things are “being added” to you and your local Church community(ies). \u00a0We have not earned them, they are given in grace! \u00a0Jesus knows what we need.”<\/em><\/p>\n