Royal Garden
Susan Witmer Miller
Faith
Up
Up
~ Susan Miller
Up out of depression
Up out of hopelessness
Up out of helplessness
Up out of despair
Power of Perspective
This morning, during my devotional, time I was reminded of one thing that made a huge difference in my journey to defeat depression. It was a change of perspective. I chose to focus on the glimmer of light in the deep dark cave-like pit I was trying to climb out of rather than focusing on the darkness. I realized that I was not alone – Jesus was sitting in the pit with me. I made the decision to climb on His lap and let Him hold me. I kept telling myself over and over again that my battle with depression was an opportunity to grow in intimacy with my Lord and Savior. In doing so, I took the enemy’s own weapon and used it on him. Was it easy? No! Did it take time? Yes! Did it take a lot of energy that I felt like I didn’t even have? Yes!
Trust is…
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
The Invitation
Come, spend time with Me today
Sit at My feet, listen, stay!
I like to walk and talk with you.
Spend time with me all day, Sue!
Walking with the Lord
Daily I walk with the Lord.
On Him, I set my sight.
On His Word I mediate;
morning, noon, and night.
The Battle
I wanted to share another sneak peek into Peaceful Moments. This time I’m sharing the poem I had the most struggle around including. The background painting is symbolic and carefully planned. The black symbolizes the battle that we are currently in. The red symbolizes the blood of Jesus, our Messiah. The yellow symbolizes the light of the Lord that is shining into the darkness even though we might not see it in the midst of our struggles. The gray symbolizes the darkness lifting. When we are at our darkest and feel most like giving up…that is often when we are closest to our victory and overcoming the monster we are battling.
Continue readingThe Continuing Publishing Saga
The above picture is the third proof of Peaceful Moments that I requested from Amazon. It arrived Friday evening and I was excited to hold it in my hand! As I cradled it and paged through it my mind went back over the two previous proofs I had requested. The first copy was lost in shipping. The next proof had errors that I and my proofreaders didn’t pick up on. Finally, I was holding the third one. They say that the third time is a charm, right? Is my book finally ready to go to the public? After carefully reading through this copy, I decided that it’s finally time to hit the publish button! Woohoo!!!! How exciting! It was Sunday afternoon the boys were away and Kevin was out taking Lazarus for a walk so there was nobody to witness my crazy little celebration. I did a little happy dance all around the living room before hitting the publish button! Hooray!!!! My publishing journey was finally over! Or so I thought…
Susan Miller 