Rhonda,
    I don't know why people want to think you have to hide your feelings and
you can't grieve but I know in the bible it says there is a time for
everything.  I don't know exactly how it says it but there's a time to cry,
a time to mourn, a time to rjc ext.  That's what I try to remember.

Amy
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From: "Rhonda" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:29 PM
Subject: depression and other emotional issues


> Why is it, that some people think that in order to be living a
"CVictorious
> Christian life" one must be perfectly happy all the time.  Loosing a
> daughter at such a young age is hard, grief is normal, why can't people be
> allowed time to grieve in their own way, to learn to face life as it is
now,
> let go of the past, all the what-ifs, and should-haves, pretending as
> George's wife  seems to be that nothing is wrong isn't helping anyone
> especially her,  I don't know about the rest of you, but I am tired of
> playing the "I have it all together game" I know a real God, who is
bigger
> than all my real and imagined problems, He is not deminished by my fears,
my
> questions, and He is more than willing to help me,  when I awaken at
> midnight and worry about the fuuture, what might happen,  or think of the
> past, what should have been done, or could have been done, I have
somewhere
> to go, "You shall know the truth and it will set you free"
> and so I tell God the truth, the truth He already knew, that I am once
again
> in the middle of a war, my doubts and fears seem to be winning, and I am
> lost somewhere looking for some peace of mind, Rhonda