Comments on: My year away http://www.withpurpose.com/2008/08/05/my-year-away/ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cerri Harbison http://www.withpurpose.com/2008/08/05/my-year-away/comment-page-1/#comment-4018 Cerri Harbison Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:51:48 +0000 http://www.withpurpose.com/?p=355#comment-4018 Amy- I absolutely love your blog. When you talk you sound just like me. I am a youth pastor's wife and just coming out of serious depression. I understand what it feels like to want to die and to feel absolutely abandoned by God. Someone above mentioned that you are "healing and getting you life in the sweet peace of God's will." I just want to point out that, despite much Christian opinion, depression doesn't always come from being out of God's will. Sometimes it is His will for us. Sometimes our good and gracious God puts us in a place where we are in enough misery that death seems welcome. God's will for us is that we be conformed to the image of His Son, and HIS WILL is whatever it takes to get us there. Depression is not always punishment for sin, but God's provision in bringing about His glory in our lives. To those out there who have never thought of jumping off a cliff, God bless you. To those like me, like Amy, hang in there girls- pretty soon you'll learn how to welcome the rain. Amy-
I absolutely love your blog. When you talk you sound just like me. I am a youth pastor’s wife and just coming out of serious depression. I understand what it feels like to want to die and to feel absolutely abandoned by God. Someone above mentioned that you are “healing and getting you life in the sweet peace of God’s will.” I just want to point out that, despite much Christian opinion, depression doesn’t always come from being out of God’s will. Sometimes it is His will for us. Sometimes our good and gracious God puts us in a place where we are in enough misery that death seems welcome. God’s will for us is that we be conformed to the image of His Son, and HIS WILL is whatever it takes to get us there. Depression is not always punishment for sin, but God’s provision in bringing about His glory in our lives. To those out there who have never thought of jumping off a cliff, God bless you. To those like me, like Amy, hang in there girls- pretty soon you’ll learn how to welcome the rain.

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