Depression...

Fear, hatred, anger, sadness, bitterness, distress, suicide? Yes... suicide! All or some of us have felt such things. We've felt like nobody cared, felt like God was just either a crutch people use to make themselves feel better, that He wasn't there, or that if He was, He hated you-- looking down at you and laughing because you were in a pit, a rut, a hole that you couldn't get out of. But at some time in our lives, for those of us that have gone through this depression, we choose to stay in it. We may not have chose to enter in, but we choose it as our comfort... but eventually, even the comfortable becomes dangerous, the sanctuary becomes dark, the mirror breaks and we are left laying at our lowest possible level, looking up, but we can't see a thing. But... there is Someone who can see you. There is Someone that knows who you are, and cared enough about you to send His only Son to die on a cross for you, for me, for all. For ALL!!! This is the focus of Out of the Ashes. To encourage the depressed but at the same time to make known the reality that depression can be a choice. This blog won't always be happy, it won't always be light, it will go to dark places when it needs to, but what are we as Christians called to do? Bring light into the darkness, bring light to the flame that has gone out. This is our call, to stand up out of ourselves, to live for something more than self-pleasure, more than fame, wealth, glory, financial security. But, before we can do that, we must accept the fact that God loves us, that there is a God. As Christians we have accepted this, but those who haven't, it's time to let God in. Let Him lift you out of the ashes of depression.