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The Loneliness of the Christian says it all. Lately I've have been trying to express to my husband (unsaved) how it is that I'm feeling a joy in my life that has no words. When people are suicidal they tend to walk through life feeling detached and watching life happen to them. I believe what I've been experiencing is like that only on the other end of the spectrum: Feeling depressed because I can't share this joy with everyone I love. I'm depressed because I'm so happy! It's sick or so I thought. Till I read this. Now I'm not feeling sick but blessed. Different, lonely, and blessed for it. It's the most beautiful pain outside of child birth. In a sense that is exactly what it is. I'm being made new in Him. Bitter-sweetness. Thank you God for putting this message in my path at just the right time. I've been struggling to understand this feeling.

Missy, Kjos Ministries 32 Comments [8/11/2008 8:31:06 PM]
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#627596

gh

Hey. It _sounded_ like rapture ready.
Guess whackos exist everywhere.

Go see a shrink.

8/11/2008 8:34:04 PM

#627604

christopher robin

praise jesus! the lord has blessed me with chronic depression!

this makes me feel sad :(

8/11/2008 8:41:12 PM

#627608

RavenWood

I really pity you people...

8/11/2008 8:46:11 PM

#627613

Jay-Sus

Anti-depressants. Doing more to cure depression than religion ever can.

8/11/2008 8:48:18 PM

#627627

Professor Cold Heart

Check out the response she got:
"Nothing is more wonderful than to be with Jesus. And often, when we are most alone in the world, He is nearest and dearest to us."

8/11/2008 8:52:33 PM

#627634

stoat100

bipolar.

8/11/2008 8:57:19 PM

#627642

TheOutsider

Emo for Jesus!

8/11/2008 9:04:50 PM

#627650

Miss Blasphemy

@ gh, I thought this was Rapture Ready at first, too. That says it all

8/11/2008 9:07:25 PM

#627651

maevemab

Why can't these people just get on with it? If you're that depressed, either get help or get gone!

8/11/2008 9:07:41 PM

#627656

kingoftheheavies

Such a. Dis-jointed, wordy. Salad of fail. Why must their depression. Have such. An effect on their. Ability. To converse like a! Normal human, being?

8/11/2008 9:11:41 PM

#627660

tracer

Translation:

"Why can't anybody else understand that I know the Secret to Life, the Universe, and Everything?!"

8/11/2008 9:13:05 PM

#627678

Illuminatalie

No, that's clinical depression. Textbook case. You're nothing out of the ordinary.

8/11/2008 9:19:44 PM

#627683

ignorance is strength, war is peace, freedom is slavery, etc.

8/11/2008 9:20:42 PM

#627726

Elphaba

the Loneliness of the Christian: cue pie chart

8/11/2008 9:38:16 PM

#627873

Tallon

Pitying...and pathetic.

8/11/2008 10:42:51 PM

#627889

Grigadil

don Juan called it "losing the human form".

8/11/2008 10:50:13 PM

#627928

Has she taken this from a masochist mag or what?

8/11/2008 11:23:18 PM

#628034

SurfinSeaOtter

Drink the kool aid!

8/12/2008 12:34:58 AM

#628048

Allegory for Jesus

"Feeling depressed because I can't share this joy with everyone I love."

Maybe if you just ran down the street screaming "I AM SO HAPPY!!!!" you'd solve your little conundrum.

8/12/2008 12:42:49 AM

#628086

Old Viking

How do they function? Where are the nice men in the white jackets when you need them?

8/12/2008 1:03:02 AM

#628228

NHBJones

"I'm depressed because I'm so happy!"

Yeah.... that makes sense.

8/12/2008 3:14:23 AM

#628256

Bri

Jeez, Christians are never happy, are they?

8/12/2008 3:35:18 AM

#628336

Sasha

I can understand why your husband is unsaved since he's seen how Jebus has blessed you with mental illness.

8/12/2008 4:31:37 AM

#628361

Carrie

There was a girl who was exactly like this in one of my English classes.

We were having a discussion and I mentioned something about a lot of Christians believing that Christianity is the sole answer to everything, which makes it impossible to find a real solution.

Then she went into some rant about how Jesus was her best friend and he does solve all her problems, and the only real problem is that other people don't yet know the joy she feels about being loved by God, or something.

I think a total of two people in the class took her seriously.

8/12/2008 4:56:31 AM

#628450

Nightboomfer

There's more than one Rapture Ready out there? I'm scared... for humanity.

8/12/2008 6:31:08 AM

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