“There are paradoxes in most depression. You loathe the isolation of depression, but you avoid other people. You want help, but you don’t always listen. You believe there is a God, but you feel like an atheist…We are all less attentive to God during peace-time and prosperity…The more extreme the suffering, the more intense is the sense of aloneness.
‘Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him {Jesus} and cause him to suffer.’ Isaiah 53:10
Martin Luther said that the cross alone is our theology. The cross says that life will not be easy. Suffering has a purpose. It is changing us so that we look more and more like Jesus himself. ‘When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.'”
**from the best book I’ve read thus far in all my years of struggling with depression: Depression: Looking Up from the Stubborn Darkness
More posts from this book
- from Chapter 4 ~ Nothing Happens Apart From His Will
- from Chapter 4 ~ Suffering Has a Purpose
- from Chapter 6 ~ The Words He Gives Us
- from Chapter 6 ~ Hope Takes Practice
- from Chapter 10 ~ Through Our Struggles
“When Christ calls a man He bids him to come and die”
Powerful. I think I will copy this out and put it up somewhere.
VC…thanks for the insight. You are right, the product is the bottom line. But I do think the Devils have done everything possible to make this an attractive building. And from Seton Hall’s standpoint, I think the building will improve Seton Hall’s product by providing a small but palpable boost in recruiting.
quite often that when transition hit, if my OB had told me that the only way to get the baby out was through my eye sockets, I would have said, “OK.” It hurts THAT much.
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