Was going back today, and listening to the robo reader on previously typed up sections, tweaking those a bit.

I am very pleased with the flashback of Little Jack, of a memory Jack had repressed. And him being able to see his younger self, comfort him and almost in a way, let him go, to let him know the child Jack could be a child, he was accepted by ones who love him, and most importantly — His Heavenly father. That little Jack didn’t have to keep fighting anymore.

I wrote that scene partially out of personal experience, when I was a teenager, probably about 17-18. I struggled with severe depression and suicidal thoughts throughout my teen years, and when I was in high school, I was studying the New Testament and reading it the whole way through. And I remember sitting on the edge of my bed, and it was like nothing else around me mattered or that I was even aware of it. And I remember feeling different – that something had lifted and broken off of me. It was the depression. I had been delivered of the stronghold of that, and I have never struggled with it the way I did as a teen.

As a teen, it was a constant, always in the background hovering, it was a battle almost every second of every minute. Any break from it seemed hard to hold onto and sometimes far apart — it kept coming back for periods, until Jesus delivered and freed me from it.

Don’t give up, call out to God, read His word. Let Him minister to you through his book written for you. And if it’s a family member, pray and intercede for them. Depression is not meant to be a way of life, and always coped with. We’re meant to be free from the bondage, and Jesus is all about setting the captives free!

I love you!