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 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 