Anguish makes you think...

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put you hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior and my God.

-Psalm 42:5-6

 

     So needless to say if you know me and your one of the few people that I actually talk to and know whats going on in my life you know that certain events have led me to be fairly depressed and upset. Of all the nights that I should have been down oddly enough the one that drove me nuts and made me really thing about whats going on was one night hanging out with the gang and watching the Stephen King movie Pet Sementary. Maybe its because the kid in the movie is so cute before he becomes a homicidal zombie or because somehow in my own way I related to the dad with losing his son. To clear things up right now, no nothing has happened to Parker and no Nothing is wrong with me or Parker, just some things that are changing that I'm having issues with. I don't mind change but this one is gonna get to me before it's over.
     All this suffering got me thinking, allot, mainly it started one night when, after a couple drinks at home alone watching stupid television and thinking about all the crap going on and posting a very depressing status, and then going to bed, I went to bed and when I woke up I found a surprise, friends. Several of the friends that I have known for ages, some that I haven't known long had sent me messages asking if everything was ok and if they could help. They assured me that everything was going to be ok, that I was gonna make it through it.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

-Philippians 4:6

   I think that some days that we forget just how blessed we are and that we do have friends, nay angels that watch over us even  when we're down, even if we don't know that their their, when we really need them they're the ones that are their and will be there for us no matter what. Sure every one's friends have gotten on their nerves, hell I've seen 2 of the best friends I've ever known argue fight, make up, get in a bigger fight, quit talking, ignore each other for months, and now they're two of the best friends I've ever seen, hard as it is to believe they may even be closer now than they were before. All this love and friendship that I've seen around me the last year has just amazed me, even when things completely blow people seem to be finding comfort in the "angels" that God has sent them. Maybe if we all listened to what the Bible told us to do:

Cast you cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

-Psalm 27:1

     Maybe if we spent more time asking God for help, and less time fretting about the stresses of daily life, and ask for God's guidance in dealing with and making it through what ever hardships may present themselves before us, I believe that nothing is to hard for us to over come.

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

-Matthew 6:25