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Ever feel melancholy? Feel like your tied up in a big claustrophobic knot? Don't know what to do? Yeah that's the kind of week I've been having.... You feel like nothing is right... Your job sucks, you miss the bus or your car doesn't start, it's too cold outside yet too hot inside, your clothes don't fit right, you don't have enough time to do everything, your hair doesn't work, your bored to death but you have no idea what would make it better, you've read every book you own, nothing is satisfactory, you have an ache in your body but have no idea where or what caused it, you feel tired yet you can't sleep, you try to laugh but you always end up somber again... You feel like you need to pray like... yet when you go to pray you just don't know what to say, you don't have the energy, the strength to make your prayer work. You try to read the Bible but your mind just wanders... You have no idea whats wrong with you, you don't know what caused it. You wish you could cry but there is nothing to cry about, you try to think of lovely thoughts but you can't find them...

Then you remember, something seeps through your melancholy haze, you remember God's love... you remember His sacrifice, all because He LOVES us. You remember that He is all knowing, ever present in the time of need, He knows our need, He knows our pains and sorrows... With God you don't need words, God doesn't need your energy, God understands that sometimes we have no strength, that sometimes we don't have anything to say. God is our best friend, He's like the friend that can sit on the phone with you and you don't need to say anything, just to feel His presence is all we need. When we have no strength , He's our strength, He's the one who will pick us up and carry us through our day, He coaches us with gentle reminds of His love, of His presence. He's always there, so just sit back, bask in His love, take comfort in the stillness, in His gentle reminder that He's there even when nothing or no one else is.

So if your feeling melancholy, try to take a moment, in the midst of the craziness of life, just to sit still and think on His love, to clear your mind of all else but Him for just a moments time. Just bask in His love, let it flood your soul. I assure you, you will find the strength to make it through your day, even if just barely.