THE ALIEN WITHIN (1ST IN SERIES)

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Life can be better but effort applied is better than effort only talked about.

Fill your days full of joy and excitement over big things, little things and in-between things, rather than end up with no thing.

Don’t be daunted when I say fill your days full of joy, start out small by filling only five minutes with pleasant thoughts or doing a good deed, and work up from there. Idleness really is the devil’s workshop, and if you work there regularly, depression can truly be your overseer.

If you have ever suffered from depression, and most people have to some degree at least sometimes - it is estimated that 35 to 40 million Americans suffer some form of depression each year - you are in good, or bad, company depending on how you look at it.

Martin Luther, the great reformer who began the protestant movement, suffered from depression.

The renown preacher, Charles Spurgeon, suffered from depression. As did John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress, the artist Van Gogh, and, of course, there was Job in the Bible. The list is long.

But what is depression? Descriptions are not hard to come by, and they all sound pretty much the same.

It is difficult to be original when it comes to emotional pain. Depression is the inability to get on with life.

This alien within that afflicts both body and mind, and mutes the sunshine of the brightest day.

It is worry out of control that makes a person nasty or argumentative or just plain sad. It runs around putting mold on our minds.

It is the playing over and over of a miserable refrain.

A psychiatrist friend once described depression as sitting in a room at night and looking out at only darkness.

For the depressed there is nothing beyond the four walls of their problems. They are boxed in and can see, and think of, nothing else and no way out.

Is it all bad? Well, not totally if you are able to get through it. Because if you have known it, you never forget it and if you allow yourself to learn from this miserable invasion of the spirit, it can certainly help you understand another human being when they look at you with great anguish in their soul and simply say, “I hurt.”

Unfortunately, too many people are too easily impatient with the dejected and the downhearted. Indeed, isn’t this what we teach and really even demand? “Show me a happy face,” we say to our children over and over again.

“How do you feel?” we ask. And we want that person to affirm that they feel wonderful even if they don'’ feel wonderful. When actually what we need to do is let them know that while we hope they feel good, it is allowed if they sometimes feel down in the dumps, or worse. That we really do care how they actually feel, and that if at the moment they cannot rise to dance and sing a tune, it’s okay.

It is not to say that we should become a nation wallowing in self-pity. But neither must we as Christians send the message by our words and actions that only the happy and hearty are acceptable.

Jesus did not say, “Go away ye who labor and are heavy laden. You make me depressed.” Jesus, this Master of love and light, this tender healer of the soul did not say this.

Thank God He did not say this.

Your Jesus and mine, God come to earth as man, could not say this because He knew and understood pain. He knows how the irrational can put a man on a cross. Heavenly endorphins - this is what He offers. The peace that passeth under-standing.

Travel through the valley of darkness and He is with you. Weep and He will not grow impatiently angry or irritated at you for it.

If you reach a point of collapse, He will kneel down and gently pick you up, leaving that one set of footprints on the sand because He sometimes does not just walk with you but carries you in His arms. And, if you will let Him, He will, as time passes, show you how to think and when and why.


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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM the SERIES…quoted from Sunday Jan 2 2011
A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM(1st in series) (on this Wyrck’s Writing blog)

It began Sunday Dec 26, 2010

“I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM the SERIES on this Wyrick’s Writings site entitled ANGER IS A KILLER. It began Thursday January 6, 2010.

“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.

Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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