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3 Lessons I Learned in the Darkness of Depression
The summer after a lengthy wake of the trauma of surviving an F-5 tornado and losing our home and all our earthly possessions, I found myself in a place no other human could touch. How can a place such as that be so painful and yet so glorious all at once?
I was utterly depressed.
Not so much an overwhelming sadness, though sadness was involved, but more of a despondency, a complete lack of motivation to do the most basic of tasks, which for me, is a dreaded place. I’m usually full of ideas and inspiration and life–to a fault–but when I’m not, I’m really empty.
When we are there though, we are compelled to look up, to cry out to the only One who “can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.”
Causes
Depression is one of those tricky topics among Christians, because we are tempted to believe it is solely a spiritual issue. And sometimes it is. But sometimes it’s not. I truly believe, having walked through it, that the brain, though more complicated than other body parts, is still capable of being “broken,” just like a kidney.
Sometimes inventory is required to figure that out. Is there unrepentant sin in my life? (Psalm 32:3,4) Am I abiding in Christ, letting His Word be to me a fountain of life? Once the spiritual causes…
