by baby chick~ while watching t.v. this weekend i saw a commercial for some kind of depression medicine. usually i just ignore those kind of things, mainly because they don't apply to me. but this one got to me. for one reason, while listing the twenty side effects suicide just happened to be one of them. now correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't you take this medicine to stay away from suicide?

now i don't know why anyone would want to submit themselves to anything that just *might* give them the feeling that they need to kill themselves.

yes i understand that at some time in every persons life there is a point of depression. when a loved one dies or loss of a job or even sometimes stress. the devil will try with all of his being to put these things into our lives, he'll push us down as soon as we get up. but i can only think of one thing stronger than the devil's hold. God.

you know he has really blessed me in my life time and i have never really had a reason to be depressed, but i know people that in the worldly view that have had reason to be depressed. then i have known others that just simply felt sorry for themselves and thought there was no reason to be happy. i've never been really depressed, i have felt sorry for myself, and i have felt sad at times but i always thought of the real actual fact of life. the fact that I have a God greater than anything on this earth on my side. that if i ask him to deliver me from this self pity that he will do it. isn't it so awesome to know how much he loves us? just knowing that gives us no reason at all to be depressed.

i hope that in some way this touches someones life. God has put this subject of depression into my heart for a while now and i didn't know why or when he wanted me to use it. and then a series of events came into play and i saw this commercial. at my first reaction of the commercial i thought, why in the world would someone even have a reason to think about taking this medicine.  and then he laid it out for me, these people probably don't know the goodness of His heart, they probably don't know what I know about God.they don't know that all this depression stuff is all a part of satan's evil plan and God has one sooooo much bigger and better for us. He *will* deliver us from any kind of depression if we simply ask.

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[photochick]

well said. i'm sure there's someone who needed just this today.

[singer chick]

thanks girl. thanks for reminding me how silly it is when i feel sorry for myself. we do have an awesome god who will fill us with joy *everyday* if we only let him.

[Sassy Chick]

Sooo funny. Me and Mr Roaster crack up at those commercials. Especially the one for restless leg syndrome. So your legs feel a little weird, take their medicine and you will have liver disease, heart attack, depression, and anxiety. Not a good trade off.