Sounding The Alarm!

I have to admit: the reason behind this post is very heartbreaking..

Every morning when I wake up, I like to do certain things as part of my AM routine. My eyes open. I lay in bed for a bit longer. Listen to some music on my phone. Pray. Think about stuff. Upload K-Love's encouraging word onto Facebook. Check Facebook on my phone. Stay in bed. Finally, get up out of bed and continue with the second part of my morning routine.

While on Facebook, I usually like to check my friend's status updates. Some are funny. Some quite uninteresting. Some depressing. Some alarming. But this morning I saw something very disturbing on my FB wall. Every single status update - OK, almost every single status update - had an undertone of depression and pain and a lot of other depressing and scary mix of emotions. Thus a sensitive nerve was hit, because I too have been experiencing these same types of emotions. And in light of everything else that is going on around me; in other words, in the world, something is happening inside the minds of my peers - and my mind - that merits immediate attention.

For the past I don't know how long, I have been experiencing some serious depression. Some of my friends are aware. Most are not. I have begun to realize that I am not the only one and that there are many others who have been experiencing depression as I have or to a greater degree. And that's not cool. Not cool at all. Therefore, coming from someone who is still battling this demon, let me share with you some profound words, with profound meanings. I challenge you to meditate on these words. I challenge you to dissect these words. Ingest them. Savor them. And if they are of any use or help, extract strength from them, as I have been, for a very long long time now.



Feels like I've been here forever
Why can't You just intervene?
Do You see the tears keep falling?
And I'm falling apart at the seams

But You never said the road would be easy
But You said that You would never leave
And You never promised that this life wasn't hard
But You promised You'd take care of me

So I'll stop searching for the answers
I'll stop praying for an escape
And I'll trust You God with where I am
And believe that You will have Your way
Just have Your way, just have Your way

When my friends and my family have left me
And I feel so ashamed and so cold
Remind me You take the broken things
And turn them into beautiful

So I'll stop searching for the answers
I'll stop praying for an escape
And I'll trust You God with where I am
And believe that You will have Your way
Just have Your way, just have Your way

Even if my dreams have died
And even if I don't survive
I'll still worship You with all my life
My life

And I'll stop searching for the answers
I'll stop praying for an escape
And I'll trust You God with where I am
And believe that You will have Your way
Just have Your way, just have Your way

I know You will, I won't forget
You love me, have Your way

-Britt Nicole, Have Your Way

To everyone who's lost someone they love

Long before it was their time
You feel like the days you had were not enough
When you said goodbye

And to all of the people with burdens and pains
Keepin' you back from your life
You believe that there's nothing
And there is no one who can make it right

There is hope for the helpless, rest for the weary
And love for the broken hearts
There is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are

Cry out to Jesus
Cry out to Jesus

For the marriage that's struggling just to hang on
Have lost all of their faith in love
And they've done all they can to make it right again
Still it's not enough

For the ones who can't break the addictions and chains
You try to give up but you come back again
Just remember that you're not alone
In your shame and your suffering

There is hope for the helpless, rest for the weary
And love for the broken hearts
There is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing
He'll meet you wherever you are

Cry out to Jesus

When you're lonely
And it feels like the whole world is falling on you
You just reach out
You just cry out to Jesus

Cry to Jesus

To the widow who suffers from being alone
Wipin' the tears from her eyes
For the children around the world without a home
Say a prayer tonight

There is hope for the helpless, rest for the weary
And love for the broken hearts
There is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing
That meets you wherever you are

There is hope for the helpless, rest for the weary
And love for the broken hearts
There is grace and forgiveness, mercy and healing
That meets you wherever you are

Cry out to Jesus
Cry out to Jesus
Cry out to Jesus
Cry out to Jesus

- Third Day, Cry Out to Jesus

God loves a lullaby

In a mother's tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

God loves the drunkard's cry
The soldier's plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

The woman holding on for life
The dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes

The tears of shame for what's been done
The silence when the words won't come

Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

Better than a church bell ringing
Better than a choir singing out, singing out

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful, the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

(Better than a Hallelujah sometimes)
Better than a Hallelujah

(Better than a Hallelujah sometimes)

-Amy Grant, Better Than A Hallelujah

This upcoming one is one of my favorites - so powerful the words and image it paints... This is for the Spanish speakers..

Es Dificil entender como viviste tu por mi
Siendo yo como soy, tu te diste por mi
Es dificil entender como moriste tu por mi
Traicionado y rechazado, defraudado por mi

Tu amor fue mas alla
Tu amor fue mas alla

Mas alla de todo, te entregaste
Y al contemplarte se me acaban las palabras
Mas alla de todo, te entregaste
Precioso Cordero en Majestad inigualable

Recibe adoracion
Recibe adoracion

-Marcela Gandara, Mas Alla De Todo

I could keep sharing more words of encouragement, but these are the ones where I draw my strength from. As I was copying and pasting though, this verse came to mind, and so I'll share it with you also.

Check it

Romans 5

"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." Romans 5: 1-5


Enjoy!