I can't see the worth of life, so why am I here?
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hey man - I would suggest, if you podcast - james macdonald - getting unstuck from depression
Based on the depression of Elijah, it's a real eye opener, speaks to my depressive feelings
I know in my life depression, and negative ways of dealing with situation was modeled by my parents, and then adopted into how I handled life
Depression for me was built on - perceived slights from other people, real or imagined, and unforgiven. Also unconfessed sin on my part as well. People basically didn't know what happened, so I would be mad, and they would be fine and oblivious to the hurt I felt - meanwhile I would watch them go about their lives like I didn't matter
Right now in my life - i have really seen my depression - stinking thinking - 'life is so awful' as a comfort, as sad as that sounds - it's like the one thing I can control in my life - my stinking thinking and my thoughts towards depression and despair
hope this helps
Based on the depression of Elijah, it's a real eye opener, speaks to my depressive feelings
I know in my life depression, and negative ways of dealing with situation was modeled by my parents, and then adopted into how I handled life
Depression for me was built on - perceived slights from other people, real or imagined, and unforgiven. Also unconfessed sin on my part as well. People basically didn't know what happened, so I would be mad, and they would be fine and oblivious to the hurt I felt - meanwhile I would watch them go about their lives like I didn't matter
Right now in my life - i have really seen my depression - stinking thinking - 'life is so awful' as a comfort, as sad as that sounds - it's like the one thing I can control in my life - my stinking thinking and my thoughts towards depression and despair
hope this helps
I'm not even sure if i know what love and joy feel like... i thought i knew them once but it seems so much negativity has taken their place that im not even sure what they feel like anymore... I feel so empty and yet feel so much pain. its hard to describe...
I cant appreciate what i cant feel... im trying to figure out how to feel at least a little love and joy again.
I cant appreciate what i cant feel... im trying to figure out how to feel at least a little love and joy again.
Joy is actually a supernatural delight in the person, the purpose, and the people of God
Love primarily is a choice
Mind - Will - Emotions
The mind must be engaged to what God's word says
The will must be led by the mind to do whatever it says
Then we can trust that God will bring emotions to follow
Just some thoughts, God has used to sort me out
Yes, there seems to be nothing that gives me happiness anymore. Things that used to give me happiness no longer do. things can disyract me from the pain but its not happiness.
the only thing i want in life is to feel loved. but in order to feel it, i have to believe it. but i dont believe anyone loves me. maybe they do but i cant believe it. whats wrong with me? Will i ever be able to believe it?? I dont know...
the only thing i want in life is to feel loved. but in order to feel it, i have to believe it. but i dont believe anyone loves me. maybe they do but i cant believe it. whats wrong with me? Will i ever be able to believe it?? I dont know...
i feel like you stepped right out of a dystopian anime.
it's not just the avatar, though it certainly fits - but you talk like you just came back from visiting the grave of the fireflies - it's kind of surreal, actually.
at this point i think i'm either supposed to cook you a nice lunch to cheer you up, or disappear into the misty bamboo forest while you shake your fist at destiny.
that doesn't bother me. it may even help in some weird way.
it's not just the avatar, though it certainly fits - but you talk like you just came back from visiting the grave of the fireflies - it's kind of surreal, actually.
at this point i think i'm either supposed to cook you a nice lunch to cheer you up, or disappear into the misty bamboo forest while you shake your fist at destiny.
that doesn't bother me. it may even help in some weird way.
from my point of view, i don't think anyone really controls their mind. before i gave my mind to Christ i was controlled by passions, lusts and all kinds of wicked things that lived in my heart, and not even "wicked" things but self-serving desires, and any devilish wind could blow my thinking where it pleased.
now Christ has been working in me, changing my heart and transforming my thinking. still i do the things i don't want to do, and don't do the things i want to do, so that it seems sometimes my mind can't control my body and my will can't control my mind either. i'm like a living mind transferred into the body of a zombie. i don't want to eat brains! but my body does. the apostle Paul wrote about this same thing.
at the basest of levels, i believe man is powerless to do any but one of two things: resist God or relent to Him. i think the nature of man is to be a vessel, if not for the Spirit of God, if we relent, than for another spirit, if we resist.
only Jesus can save us from that.
now Christ has been working in me, changing my heart and transforming my thinking. still i do the things i don't want to do, and don't do the things i want to do, so that it seems sometimes my mind can't control my body and my will can't control my mind either. i'm like a living mind transferred into the body of a zombie. i don't want to eat brains! but my body does. the apostle Paul wrote about this same thing.
at the basest of levels, i believe man is powerless to do any but one of two things: resist God or relent to Him. i think the nature of man is to be a vessel, if not for the Spirit of God, if we relent, than for another spirit, if we resist.
only Jesus can save us from that.
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i feel like you stepped right out of a dystopian anime.
it's not just the avatar, though it certainly fits - but you talk like you just came back from visiting the grave of the fireflies - it's kind of surreal, actually.
at this point i think i'm either supposed to cook you a nice lunch to cheer you up, or disappear into the misty bamboo forest while you shake your fist at destiny.
that doesn't bother me. it may even help in some weird way.
it's not just the avatar, though it certainly fits - but you talk like you just came back from visiting the grave of the fireflies - it's kind of surreal, actually.
at this point i think i'm either supposed to cook you a nice lunch to cheer you up, or disappear into the misty bamboo forest while you shake your fist at destiny.
that doesn't bother me. it may even help in some weird way.
Only Jesus can feel the emptiness in our heart, and it takes a commitment to him. I used to be depressed then i started putting
God first and he turned the negatives to positives, but you have to go to church and hear the word. Church is where you
get refreshed and rest for your spirit. Pray where the Lord would have you go, where you can be fed.
God bless you............
God first and he turned the negatives to positives, but you have to go to church and hear the word. Church is where you
get refreshed and rest for your spirit. Pray where the Lord would have you go, where you can be fed.
God bless you............