Some advice someone gave me when I began this particular journey a few months ago was that after the surgery, after I had been given a few days of pain meds and told to take them every four hours, do it. Stay ahead of the pain. I did that and I stayed ahead of the surgery pain.
Yesterday, I found myself getting a little bit discouraged and a little bit depressed, but I kinda ignored it, hoping it would just go away. This morning it was still there, but God in His faithfulness reminded me of that advice I was given about pain. And I realized the same principle applied in this situation, that in order to stay ahead of depression, frustration, discouragement, anger, you name it, I have to take it to the cross right away!
I started feeling that way yesterday, and I did not go to the Lord with it. But this morning I did, and I got back on track. And the depression and the discouragement are gone, so my advice to you if you find yourself in the same place I was, is the same as my advice to myself actually. Stay ahead of the pain go back to the source of relief, comfort, joy, peace, assurance, forgiveness. Don’t let the pain overwhelm you. The moment you begin to feel that discouragement, ask the Holy Spirit to remind you to go back to the source of your relief, the source of our strength, the source. He is the source.
I am a blessed woman!