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Thoughts on DESPAIR

The feeling of despair is never the truth- it is always a lie- that something so terrible has happened that Hell is the only reality for ever and ever...I am so terrified of despair- since i have come out of depression, i really haven't felt it much until today. I haven't faced it yet as a free person and i am scared to death. But i believe with all my heart that God does not want us to be afraid of things like despair- he wants us to laugh in its face.Because it is something that once had a hold of me, i am so afraid, because i remember the time when despair seemed to be bigger and more powerful than God. Now i know he is so much bigger than anything that we could never comprehend it ... and so much stronger. And i know that my life does not belong to me (nor to the despair). My life, so fragile, so small, belongs only to God, and i believe right now (and HOPE) that if i just let go of my life and know it is in his big hands, the despair will lose its power which was only an illusion to begin with.After he frees us, he will bring us back to face each thing that once had a hold of us, and because we will truly be free, we will not be afraid- we will know that he has conquered it and that we are his children and he is with us and anything that bows before him must also bow before us. The gates of Hell truly shall not prevail against the Church, because he will make us strong and unafraid (or at least BRAVE).

And we will be SAFE because we are in his hands.