Your face is bright with the love of the Lord. Our souls are singing together, despite the evil that threatens to befall us.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

Happened to me. God saw what I was trying to do and wouldn't allow me to commit suicide. It was His way of telling me that I needed to stay here on earth and continue living. I looked up at the sky and whispered "thank you," then walked back towards the campus.

We can call it what it is and ask God to help us. I'm tired, God. What do I do? I'm lonely, God. What do I do? I'm mad, God. What do I do? I'm insecure, God. What do I do? I'm frustrated, God. What do I do? Outward expressions are internal indications.

Refuse to wallow in the depressing angst condemnation brings.

We talk about unplugging, but we're enchanted—by the endless social media circus of love and hatred, the vapid, alarming, sensational, and unforgivable. We're snagged by every new notification. And while we've always had our individual struggles and heartbreaks to deal with, now we have the tragedies of the entire world delivered to us hourly on our mobile devices. This is all very hard on the soul. Traumatizing, in fact.

Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation," and it seems nothing has changed.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

Say they who counsel war; 'we are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe; Whatever doing, what can we suffer more, What can we suffer worse?' Is this then worst, Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms? What when we fled amain, pursued and struck With Heaven's afflicting thunder, and besought The Deep to shelter us? This Hell then seemed A refuge from those wounds. Or when we lay Chained on the burning lake? That sure was worse.

Let God turn your mess into your message.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.