Life is Hard, We all Need More Grace

Today I want to talk to you about some things that need to be spoken out loud that people don’t really talk about. So I want to break the ice and bring some understanding to a conversation that needs to be spoken. The holiday season is the year that more people are depressed, sad and lonely. But throughout the year many suffer in silent pain. They have so many things they are facing that overwhelm them, but they are embarrassed, humiliated and sad, broken and lost, living in physical pain and fear of the unknown, that they don’t know how to share this emotional pain with anyone. They want too, but then they don’t feel they can add anymore of the bad feelings to this mounting pressure of someone else thinking any less of them than they already are feeling within themselves. So they suffer in silence until they simply just can’t anymore and many take their lives. They don’t want to let anyone down, they don’t want to disappoint, but all they know to do is just take themselves out of the picture.  They are tired, they have worked so hard to stay upbeat and try to stay positive to try to believe it will get better, to try to cover it up so no one will know. They are often the ones we think are so strong, and fun. That is what they want to be, but eventually it all is just too much weight to carry. I want you to know that you can humble yourself before the Lord and He will hear all of it and not judge you. He already paid the price for all that and if you will seek Him you will find Him. He is gracious. We all do go through trials and what seems like tribulations. And we question why we are having to endure those things, but the answers and the timing lie in how we respond and what we will learn to make us stronger. Truth it is not always easy, in fact most times its a big struggle, but the alternative should never be an option because it is much more trying and going towards no good resolution. In the next podcast I will have a visitor who will share how things in his life turned around. He’s twelve years old. Be sure to come and listen.