People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

In the United States, if one family out of every four churches adopted a child, there would be no orphans in the country

That's the essence of our faith. It's living with hope in the face of mystery. We live a life of faith completely full of hope, staring mystery right in the face. You can't have one without the other. Your faith won't survive without hope, and hope won't survive without the realization that there are mysteries that will not be answered. If you can embrace both, you can have a vibrant faith.