Comments on: If I Share My Darkness http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/ Journeys as a daughter of the King Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: khaki http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19568 khaki Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:55:30 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19568 God just led me to your blog...I can't even recall the link from what link on what blog I was just reading that got me here! Just God! But I have been blessed already...especially by this post. I have been a Christian all my life but depression has always been sort of a visitor in my life...comes and goes...I always know it will come again, and go again...I do better when I can "name" my feelings, and I usually can...but sometimes it is just HOMESICKNESS...for my REAL home, and I have to remember we are not home yet... but in a little while we'll be with the Father... God just led me to your blog…I can’t even recall the link from what link on what blog I was just reading that got me here! Just God! But I have been blessed already…especially by this post. I have been a Christian all my life but depression has always been sort of a visitor in my life…comes and goes…I always know it will come again, and go again…I do better when I can “name” my feelings, and I usually can…but sometimes it is just HOMESICKNESS…for my REAL home, and I have to remember we are not home yet… but in a little while we’ll be with the Father…

]]> By: amy http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19140 amy Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:34:41 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19140 thanks for your vulnerability, Anna. keep fighting! thanks for your vulnerability, Anna. keep fighting!

]]> By: Anna http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19136 Anna Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:46:08 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19136 Thank you, Katy. <3 Thank you, Katy. <3

]]> By: Anna http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19135 Anna Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:45:42 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19135 Wow, what a wonderful quote, Alysa. That was so encouraging. Thank you. Wow, what a wonderful quote, Alysa. That was so encouraging. Thank you.

]]> By: Sally http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19134 Sally Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:38:53 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19134 Been there, done that. At times still going through it. Prayer helps, as does having understanding friends and family. Been there, done that. At times still going through it. Prayer helps, as does having understanding friends and family.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19132 Elizabeth Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:37:24 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19132 *Hug!* Praying for you, dear Anna ... *Hug!* Praying for you, dear Anna …

]]> By: Callie http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19125 Callie Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:38:29 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19125 Thanks for being so honest, Anna. I've gone through extended periods of having "the blues", but the way you find the hope even through depressing times gives me encouragement. Thanks for being so honest, Anna. I’ve gone through extended periods of having “the blues”, but the way you find the hope even through depressing times gives me encouragement.

]]> By: Katy http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19112 Katy Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:45:36 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19112 Wow Anna. I have been struggling with the same thing and this post...was such an encouragement to me. Thank you for sharing your heart. Today I was on a date with Jesus and He gave me this verse and I thought I would share it with you: "Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God." Psalm 43:5 Praying for you! :) Wow Anna. I have been struggling with the same thing and this post…was such an encouragement to me. Thank you for sharing your heart. Today I was on a date with Jesus and He gave me this verse and I thought I would share it with you:

“Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.”
Psalm 43:5

Praying for you! :)

]]> By: Alysa http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19106 Alysa Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:37:51 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19106 Oh Anna, I'm sorry to hear you're going through such a valley! It is certainly not a nice one to travel, but may our Lord Jesus restore joy and peace to you! I was going to share this quote with you, it is attached to my wardrobe door, but when I see so many others shared encouraging verses or scripture, I hesitate to do so! However, I just shared it with my boyfriend, and perhaps it could help someone else, so let me just copy it here :) I am the subject of depressions of spirit so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to, but I always get back again by this-I know I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in him, and if he falls I shall fall with him, but if he does not, I shall not. Because he lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and my down castings, and get the victory through it; and so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it. In your most depressed seasons you are to get joy and peace through believing. Charles Spurgeon - "Joy and Peace in Believing" 20th May 1866 Oh Anna, I’m sorry to hear you’re going through such a valley! It is certainly not a nice one to travel, but may our Lord Jesus restore joy and peace to you!

I was going to share this quote with you, it is attached to my wardrobe door, but when I see so many others shared encouraging verses or scripture, I hesitate to do so! However, I just shared it with my boyfriend, and perhaps it could help someone else, so let me just copy it here :)

I am the subject of depressions of spirit so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to, but I always get back again by this-I know I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in him, and if he falls I shall fall with him, but if he does not, I shall not. Because he lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and my down castings, and get the victory through it; and so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it. In your most depressed seasons you are to get joy and peace through believing.

Charles Spurgeon – “Joy and Peace in Believing” 20th May 1866

]]> By: Anna http://hoperoadblog.com/2010/06/if-i-share-my-darkness/comment-page-1/#comment-19097 Anna Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:28:48 +0000 http://hoperoadblog.com/?p=2256#comment-19097 Thank you, dear cousin! Such good verses! Thank you, dear cousin! Such good verses!

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