Many are reflecting on Robin Williams today and equally focusing on the issue of depression and its invisible destruction on lives and families. Ive known dear friends who have struggled and fought depression, and I myself have as well. It is a dark and heavy hopelessness and disappointment that grips the heart and mind. Thats putting it mildly when you are weighted beneath it. In those times we must choose to find the things of today to be grateful for however small or fleeting. We must find the joys and lifts of the heart that shift that burden and weight even ever so slightly. AND, we must focus on a hope for things of tomorrow that we desire so that the next step is toward the light and toward hope and a good future. It makes taking another step easier and another breath a deeper and strengthening one. For me, I have found my greatest joys and peace and hope in Gods presence and my hope in the promises of his word and a strengthened hope from his faithfulness to me over the years. His love felt during worship, or during a deep cry/share of my heart, or in an embrace, or in a song, has illuminated the deep personal nature of his love FOR ME as well as his plans and love for my future. His love for me broke the loneliness and hopeless grip it had on me. His love became THE thing Im always grateful for no matter how bad a situation or perception. It became the reason I can sleep at night. The reason that I no longer desire to see my life prematurely end. The reason that I dont cry at night lonely and hating myself. Now, when I cry its out of gratitude for a love I had always desired and never known that now Ill never be without. His love also became the promise of a future that I could look forward to right into eternity. I will never be separated from HIS love and that has literally altered my entire life. Successful or not, alone or not the God of the universe is deeply and passionately and irrevocably in love with me and I will never have to live another moment of any day separated from it. Gods love is a game changer people and its freely accessibly to any and all people all the time. It is probably my lifes single greatest desire, that others would experience the love I have experienced so that their hearts and lives would be as deeply changed as mine. I pray that in the darkest of moments and hardest of days, this truth will come back to someones remembrance and they will reach out for this love and find open arms and more than they ever imagined. When this love is real for you, youll always have something to be grateful for. When this love is real for you, youll always have hope for tomorrow. It begins with a step. a conversation. a choice. an invitation for him to enter your life, your situation, your heart and be all you need him to be. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. #RobinWilliams #Love #God #Truth #Hope
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 22:36:05 +0000
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