[Magdalen] could use some prayer pats

[Clarissa Canning]

Thanks for prayers & responses.

On May 9, 2017 2:24 PM, "James Oppenheimer-Crawford" <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> A suggestion I have gotten when I've been depressed and those horrid
> feelings got going, was to confront the evil feeling and say to myself, "I
> now know this is not true.  I do not need to take this seriously anymore.
> I am not going to give in to this evil feeling."
>
> It is a typical trick of depression that it can make you and me feel as if
> things are going the worst way possible when evidence shows that's not the
> case, but the depression can make us feel that way.  Part of the fight
> against the depression is to remind yourself that it's the depression
> taking, and not rational thought.
>
> I've been involved in psychiatric rehabilitation for thirty years, and I
> still sometimes find I can benefit from seeing a counselor. It takes an
> outsider sometimes to remind me that things aren't as bad as I am tempted
> by depression to believe.
>
> This isn't one of those things where you just think this thought one time
> and the sky just clears up. Those depressive habits get built up in all of
> us over decades of learning, so it will take a while, but keep reminding
> yourself that the real truth isn't what your depression is telling you, and
> that depression always makes things worse than they are; depression always
> makes you out to be a terrible person.  I sometimes think most orthodox
> Xtian theologians must have been depressed. That would explain a lot of the
> self-loathing one finds in a lot of the writings over the centuries...
>
> And -- this is my own experience -- having a little cat purring on your lap
> is good therapy for pretty much everything.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Praying Clarissa.
> >
> > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > suddenly find myself depressed. I hate it so much, my reoccurring dream
> > > about never making it to Uni comes back.  I have to fight ever bad
> > thought
> > > and try to stop any thoughts of past.  My mouth starts spring out
> > negative
> > > stuff. My brain literal feel like fog is covering it.  urg ....      On
> > > positive side my dear Dakota sister phoned me.  she is doing well.
> doing
> > > the EFM and enjoying a book about St Francis she so glad to relate to
> it.
> > > she sending me a gift since she can't found she has no more quilt
> filler.
> > > She told me she had a sister Margaret who is one of the murdered
> > indigenous
> > > women. Pray for info sbout them to comr out.  She shared about some of
> > > those bad memories if RES school. the learned the 10 commandments......
> > How
> > > is one to honor your parents when you are taken away from them?  Why
> > where
> > > we told we are no good?  please always pray for  Helen an  Indeginous
> > > Deacon learning more and more about scripture from Alberta.   It's
> > amazing
> > > the way God calls people disregarding  their age.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> > Western Michigan
> >
>