Make A Plan

I can recall being "stuck" in things many times before. Perhaps it was an educational decision or a career decision. For many of us we get stuck in relationships or in moods. The inertia may happen suddenly or very quietly, slowly creeping up on us before we even realize it has happened.

When we get stuck we sometimes can't figure out how to get moving again and we give up. It sounds so simple because it IS so simple. How many of you reading this blog hate your job? Or are single because you still can't get past what happened in your last relationship? How many of you have stopped communicating with your spouse or significant other? Or maybe it's fear and worry for a child who is struggling in school? Weighed down with this or that, the inertia sets in.

If we are not careful that inertia can lead to the outright paralysis of depression. It is estimated that almost 19 million people in America are clinically depressed. That's almost 10% of the entire adult population. 100% of us will deal with depression at some point in our lifetimes. Between now and 2020 depression will be the second largest killer after heart disease. Saddest of all? The fastest growing population of the clinically depressed is preschoolers (over one million and counting).

Xanax is not the answer. Therapy can help but only to a point before it becomes a problem unto itself. If you are stuck in life you have fallen into a hole, that's all. Look around and try to get out. But if you are also fighting depression the most important thing that I can try to convey here is that the hole that you have fallen into? It's only half as big as the hole within you. You cannot fill that hole with anything but God. You can try other things, and many of us do (there are 19 million alcoholics in America, every second 28,258 people are viewing pornography on the internet and currently almost 10 million people in America are addicted to online/television shopping).

You cannot overcome this world with things of this world. Why? Because you weren't created for this world in the first place and a part of you very much knows this. It's why so many of us have a problem with death. It's like the final exam that we know we haven't prepared for. We sense that what created us is beyond that last day of ours, but we who plan our mornings around Starbucks and our weekends around a favorite hobby have spent little or no time on planning our eternity.