Post Holiday Crash

[pumanator]

I know from studies I've read that when we experience a high it is followed by a low mostly due to the energy expended during the high of whatever it was we experienced. Illness and chronic pain along with stress due to (fill in the blank) saps our energy and sets up a vicious cycle that can spiral downward. It can cause us to not seek the Lord or read His word thus making us spritually weak adding to the load which is too heavy and which we were never meant to bare.

It's easy to say cast all your cares on Him and that His yoke is easy and it can be almost impossible to hear it over and over again from ppl...unless they belong to that group that really, truly understands and has experienced the "valley of the shadow (remember, it's only a shadow) of death".

I came here feelling quite down (still do) but after reading some of the new threads I was once again reminded that I'm not alone and that there are others who have far deeper vallies to trudge than I.

The topic was holiday...no doubt for some it was great, ok, hohum, bummer. He is with us all the yr 'round and our joy should be based on that.

How was your holiday and how are you doing now...feel free to vent

 

[goldenviolet]

i just decided to bring you... blessings!

[pong] Warmfuzzies [/pong]

 

[pumanator]

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[stanneberg]

I came here feelling quite down (still do) but after reading some of the new threads I was once again reminded that I'm not alone and that there are others who have far deeper vallies to trudge than I.

Hey Pumanator!

I think we are going to be friends!

You quoted from Psalm 23. I did the same last night on another thread. I too have been experiencing a great deal of pain and haven't been able to work at all for over 4 months. I usually stay over on the bipolar thread because I was diagnosed with it over a decade ago.

I like the Psalms. Its sort of like reading my journal. One day I'm up, the next, down. In spite of all of David's weaknesses, he was a man after God's own heart. He was painfully honest, repentant when convicted of sin, a horrible father and husband and probably more. Still, God blessed him. David was a friend to God.

The last couple of days, I have been fasting with my wife in order to seek God's direction for our lives. I have been pouring over scripture, reading and writing on these threads. The greatest thing that happened to me lately was meeting other people through this forum with the same disease, same calling, same passion and same burden as my own. I have been able to find support that I couldn't find any where else.

You have my support and my prayers.

Stephen Tanneberg