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God is amazing!

ribenaberry

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I've been really down over the last few days, and thinking that none of my housemates give a stuff about me, pretty much entirely because I over-reacted at one thing that was said to me. I was in church on my own this evening praying for God to take all the pain and lonliness away, and during the sermon the preacher was talking about Solomon's wisdom and read a few of the proverbs, including this one:
"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones" (Pr 17:22)
This jsut got me thinking about how I was blatantly making myself feel so much worse by not just giving it all to God in the first place, and then after that we had a fantastic worship session and I jsut feel amazing, although I haven't yet had a chance to talk to the person that I need to (the one who's comment I reacted really badly to in the first place), but it's made me really think how easily I'm prepared to slip back into the depression that caused me years of pain without a fight, but now I know that I fell I can do something to stop it happening again.

Yay! God's so fantastic!!