12 Steps Toward Overcoming Discouragement or Depression with Joy

05/10/20 • 53 min

Isaiah 53:3 tells us that the Messiah would be “A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief”. Sooner or later, we will ALL become acquainted with grief. Why were we all created with the ability to experience the agony of grief, the deep pain of depression, or the sadness that accompanies discouragement? In this podcast we explore what our Creator has to say about that question and His wisdom around where we can find our joy again, and 12 practical ideas that when implemented, can move you that direction. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13). ALL things is ALL things. --- Even overcoming our own discouraging mindsets. Hang tough. God's people are MORE than conquerors (Romans 8:37) and so very much loved (1 John 4:16).

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It's around early February 1982. I'm 19 and Mark is 23. We've been married around 2 1/2 years and I'm getting a little bored and looking for "a little something new to do". We're sitting across from each other at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Los Chiles in Keizer, Oregon. And I say to him, "You know we talked about waiting 5 years before starting our family? Maybe since it takes sometimes years to conceive, if we started now then in maybe in about 3 years I might be pregnant .... and Ashley's life started about two weeks later. She's our only surviving biological child and is creative, funny, smart, interesting, loves God and hungers for His smile upon her life. She's been happily married since age 19 to her college sweetheart who loves her well. They live in Rhode Island where they're raising their three gorgeous (above average) :D children with lovely, slow moving river in the backyard of the home they call "River House". She is a fiber artist and the author of Spinning and Dyeing Yarn. You can find her free spinning video series on her website How to Spin Yarn. She is also a dealer in the Boston / Providence area for SpinOlution spinning wheels, and engineers SpinOlution’s marketing, graphic design, social media, Spin Her Free fundraiser, dealership program, and website. Her husband Brian works in a lab at Harvard medical in Boston. Enjoy this little mother/ daughter conversation around things that delight Ashley, with some interesting little stories in-between. (You may hear 2 year old "Nub" faintly in the background from time to time. He was hanging out with the rest of the family for awhile where, apparently, he had some preferences he needed to voice).