Depression sounds like a calm expression, but it is a word that has affected thousands of young people in the 21st generation. The cause of this deeming evil may vary from person to person and hence may not be easily identified. However, depression is solely hinged on the presence of a certain kind of pain: this pain may sometimes be personal to the victim and hence is singularly identified..

According to Wayde Goodall, "depression could be a hereditary factor, a major adjustment, trauma, surgery, or a series of stressful events that bring on emotional downward spiral.

One morning a person wakes up from the aftermath of yesterdays dream and realizes that they have some kind of terminal disease. The funny feeling of hopelessness drowns her authentic paradigm of yesterday and the foggy feeling hits on her rapidly and submerge her mind into patterns of negative thoughts. She doesn't want to be sad but she begins to live in that place through her chemotherapy meetings. Atlas, she doesn't just die from the pain of cancer but she is shot off by the earnestness of sadness.

 One thing about depression is that no one plans to get depressed and suicidal; these things just happens because of a bad situation or a pain that refuses to go away. You can't understand what depression really means unless you've been there.

One other nasty but hilarious adventure into the realms of depression is the need to be perfect and stay put as every one's bunny girl. As a first class melancholic, I am aware that most of the times, I find myself sad over things I could have have done better. That's a waste of time!!. Melancholy are usually prone to sadness if not directed by the Holy Spirit.
In this game of being better, they forget that they are humans and are only made perfect through christ

Experiences are what prompts depression and that nonsensical fog that refuses to go away. To anyone passing through depression, I want to say to your heart you can get through it.

Craig Ellison writes, "how does Satan try to take advantage of our pain? Satan's one and only goal is to destroy us. He is a master military strategist. Satan and his forces study each of us thoroughly in order to determine our particular pain profile. Pain points are our most psycho - spiritual vulnerability. Our pain profile is the particular pattern of pain that we have developed through rejection, isolation, inadequacy, anxiety and worthlessness. But remember Jesus still heals our pain profile!

Remember that great men hit tough challenges. Dick Cavett, Kitty Dukakis and Ted Turner have publicly acknowledged that their fight with depression would last a lifetime time.

Racheal and Leah's Lonely Tale.

Rachel and Leah's Lonely tale

Rachael and Leah spent their lives in a pit of envy and competition not being aware of the greatness of their destinies. 


The obscure land of Haran carried the fragrance of camel's dung and roasted sheep meat. Haran was old and scary looking in nature, the mountains there were hinged on the bones of their dead ancestors. The vegetation had quietly taken a bow because of the over treading nature of people who lived there. Old father Abraham treaded towards the promise land from his ancestral home "Haran" .

The town "Haran" still smells of "defeat, past, loneliness, and death". Jacob the guy who stole his brothers birth right was up to no good strolling towards a land the lord had warned them to depart; Rebekah his smart crafty mother must have known more than the lord who had warned their father Abraham not to return...

He finally reached the land he desperately sought for and there he found a young village shepherdess called Rachael; a slender looking beauty, fragile to the eyes and soft in her delicate parts, her hair sparkled of lemon splashed in waters and the skin that was carefully crafted out by the lord was succulent because of the luscious application of goat milk on it. As his eyes dug into her soul, he fell in love and that was the beginning of their great journey!!

As time hit the heated rocks of Haran, the get together broke into marital longings and Laban his trickster uncle beckoned on him to go ahead with his desires. Unknown to the two love birds, Laban had a plan to keep Jacob working for him as long as forever.

Jacob finally took the long rope and asked for Racheals loving hands on a marital destination; so much Joy filled the atmosphere as it was a great opportunity to be permanently joined to the one who shared ties with them.

On the night  couples meet their fantastical longings and splashes of desires that have been bottled up for years, Jacob's fantasies breaks loose as all he had worked for was a piece of waste; the one who laid carelessly by his side wasn't the object of his toil by the lonely Leah.

The tussle then broke loose when the battles between thrones began. Racheal who carried the affectionate spot of Jacob realized that she was Barren. Rachael realizing she was Barren became envious of her sister. She exclaimed to Jacob give me children or I'll die. Leah who was also a red headed sister wasn't wise enough to call he sister to a peace summit, wared hard against Rachael despite being aware of how insecure she was. The two ladies in lonely Haran spent their lives in that sheep tent of a house in competition on something so trivial as who would reproduce more children; what boring lives they must have lived. How wish these women understood the importance of their existence on earth then they would have spent their lives building their boys up in the lord.

After the tiresome journey of Rachaels envies and competitions, the lord still blessed her immensely with one of the greatest children in biblical prophecies. She must have ended her life in disillusionment and depression after knowing the lord never forgot her.

The greatest of mishap was that's the ladies didn't know the lord yet they built the Jewish dynasty which still stands firmly until today.

God had a reason why he created Racheal and yet he closed her womb because he had a plan. All these was calculated so that Joseph would be borne at a time when he was go to save the children of Isreal from the aggressive famine that came upon the world. Striking that the most gifted souls are usually the ones limited by these mental holdups.

Get over your insecuirities and get on either the life God has for you through the knowledge of God's word. Get to know what the word says about you and believe it for that's all that really matters!!

You are special and unique!

THE SAFETY OF CONTENTMENT

Life would not always give you what you desperately need, nevertheless we must always fight to get what we truly deserve. The beauty of life is in the warring. What boring lives we would have without the battles that hits at us through our lives. Regardless of our quest to want, we must be self-assured that contentment contains inherent ingredients for winning the tenacious desire for more.

Contentment is the strange peace in what has already been acquired without the assertion to pack up more and more with self-imposed anxiety. Life would be easier if people took and enjoyed what they already have. I believe the wanting more is not a bad thing, it's the approach we undertake in getting the things that we want that matters most. Anything done with anxiety is just a waste of your God given time on earth. In getting the things we really want, we must be certain that we are satisfied with what we ready have. To have more through anxiety is to risk the greatness of your time here on earth. Life should be enjpyed and shouldn't be suspended in the graveness of your time on earth.

Life should be enjoyed and shouldn't be suspended in Olivery moments. The familiar text, Oliver twist is about the young boy who always wanted more food when he exhausted the one he already got: he always got what he deserved from the people who were in charge of the children at the orphanage. This happens to be how so many people are, never okay with the things that they have been given. Our pursuits for more usually gets us our hearts desire but with degrading movements in the state of happiness.

Depression deepens when regardless of what we have, we are either staring at what we don't have or at what another person possesses. Life is permanently changing and with the frequency and fervency of change, no matter what we have, life would stupidfy it and our hearts would long for new items. The only liberation we need from this great evil is liberty in our hearts to be satisfied with what is accessible at given moments. I would never support mediocrity; reach for your hearts goals, reach for the depths of your heart but remember to be driven by positive and healthy motives.

The Bible says something very profound about our drive to succeed "people are driven by their envies and jealousies to succeed" . That shouldn't be our hearts reason to succeed because it is unreasonable as each and every one of us possess different makeup and destinies. God wouldn't have made two people alike no matter how closely related or similar they appear to be. God enjoys our individuality and his relentless quest is that we remain that
way and build on all that is inherent in us.

To relentlessly feel unsatisfied about ourselves is pessimistically damaging. Rather than that, accept who you are and reach out to improve on the areas that needs diligent work. This is not without strain and perseverance but one must go on to create real channels of satisfaction in their lives, marriages and ministries. As we develop into divergent areas as the lord calls us to reach, do yourself good by dropping all those poisoning tendencies like dissatisfaction, and comparisons. In the long run, they would be harmful and our growths would be crippled.

Our journey through life would be intensified by our troubles. Troubles would arise, our pains would seek to strangulate us but regardless of these, find more of God in the struggles you face. Time would pressurize us into seeking bits of things that do not yield, but radically push throughout to revive your hearts and minds with more of God. The deep search for God is the aggressive search for a rhythmic party life afterwards. Not a small task but keep moving and never stop until your heart beats with tangible volts of God's presence. In this package, our lives contentment lies.

Keep your heart burning with the fire of contentment!!