Not sure of your faith/beliefs however I truly believe we will all get through this... We will all come out ahead... Right now we are shaken and battered and bruised and depressed however as I was told today this to shall pass... I was sitting here tonight not really thinking but not really not thinking and something told me to look up a Bible passage - Psalm 42... I have never had anything tell me to look up any passages so I looked it up and I will post it here for you... For all of you... It is a bit long however it speaks volumes... Before I do that here is another bump I have encountered maybe you can help me with... Yesterday my 14 year old was arrested for trespassing - I can barely type that without crying - I haven't told my H yet - 2 reasons - Fear he really won't care and fear he may think I am not doing a good enough job and take him... What would you do?
Here is the passage - It is about spiritual depression - This is something the Bible teaches over and over again — the rhythm of trials followed by blessing (Ps. 66:10-12; Lam. 3:21-36), suffering followed by hope (Rom. 5:3-5)
Psalm 42: As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6 my God. My [c] soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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May All Who Seek To Take My Life Be Put To Shame And Confusion; May All Who Desire My Ruin Be Turned Back In Disgrace. ~Psalm 40:14~
