I mean, it makes sense if everything in your life seems to be going wrong; if you’re alone and thrive with being around other people; or anything similar to these.
But what about when most everything seems to be going well? When you get the news of your dreams, and yet you can’t seem to pull your head above the surface of the water. How does that make sense? It doesn’t! It’s just weird.
With that being said, though, it doesn’t mean it isn’t real or valid.
Except for my retail job, everything in my life is going extremely well. Even my last two days at work have been better. And yet, I got to my “weekend” and all I could do was sit and wallow. About what? No idea!
That’s what didn’t make sense.
I was feeding a neighbor’s cat while he was out of town. And by neighbor, I mean someone four buildings down. I had to go outside.
In my state of wallowing, I didn’t want to leave my apartment, but I pulled on my shoes and left the building. It was raining, but it was forecast to do so for the next several hours. I actually like the rain, so it wasn’t a hardship at all. On my walk there, I used my umbrella so I wouldn’t drip all over someone else’s home, but on the walk home, I strode in the rain. I felt like I was breathing for the first time since returning from vacation.
I’m not going to sit here and try to tell you that the answer to getting rid of depression is praying more or reading the Bible more. Does it help me? Yes. But only to an extent.
It didn’t matter how much I did these two activities (or tried to do these activities), I couldn’t pull myself out.
As I sit here writing this (in pen before typing it up), I’m sitting out in nature. I’m sitting at the Reservoir (opening picture) and soaking in the beauty.
Sometimes getting a step away from depression simply means changing your location.
Does it fix everything? No. Will we still struggle? Some. But it helps for a moment.
And it makes me WANT to spend more time in prayer and in the Word rather than feeling like I NEED to.
Win-win.
So as weird as depression may very well be, it doesn’t get the last say on your life.
Where can you go to fight the internal battles? Share your pics and ideas in the comments!
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Brittany Stonestreet 