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I was told that there is a Biblical prohibition against falling into despair.

If I won the lottery, one of the things I’d do is go around and lend depressed people puppies and kittens for a few hours, then pick them up at the end of the day. I’m serious.

5 posted on 04/12/2016 11:30:01 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)

To: T-Bone Texan

It doesn’t help. Depression doesn’t mean unhappy. You literally feel like you have been injected with some type of drug. The key is to not indulge it.

You can lie in bed and stare at the wall all day or you can get your azz up, eat breakfast and go to work.

15 posted on 04/12/2016 11:54:04 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)

To: T-Bone Texan

Who told you that?? Depression/despair is a normal part of life, and the the cure is to look up at your Creator rather than your circumstance.

I do think that is a neat idea, caring for something other than ourselves gives us purpose and joy.

46 posted on 04/12/2016 12:47:43 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine

To: T-Bone Texan

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Matthew 6:25-34 New International Version (NIV)

Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

49 posted on 04/12/2016 12:51:39 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)

To: T-Bone Texan

I just posted those words of Jesus to you.
Yet, I still do have a constant struggle with depression, I don’t want to appear otherwise.
I could use those puppys and kittens.
Those words keep me going.

53 posted on 04/12/2016 1:01:19 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)

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