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Connie's Coda
Column by Constance Gilbert

Creating a Depression-Free Home, Part 2
Establishing serenity in your surroundings is a challenge. It's also a spiritual journey well worth your planning effort. Begin a step at time and understand that it's an on-going effort.
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Creating a Depression-Free Home
Your home reflects your personality and sets the mood for you and all of those who enter. It can also contribute to your state of mind and emotional well-being.
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Growing Through Books
There is one more advantage of words and books—healing through journaling. In December 1984 I wrote, "It’s been a stressful year. As Christmas approached, depression set in..."
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Pain is Never Wasted by God
Pain comes in all sizes and shapes. It's physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual. We all can relate to pain in some way.
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Distractions of Life
Distractions are the jewels of Satan's arsenal of diversion. Keeping us busy, but not productive. Keeping us on the journey, but down the wrong paths. Keeping us in the game, but on the bench.
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Get Out of That Pit!
As children of God, we have a difficult, straight and narrow path to follow in order to fulfill God's purposes for our lives. While on that path, we are to “submit to God, resist the devil and come near to God” (James 4:7-8). More

The Home Team
As I write, direct, encourage or whatever, in response to God's calling upon my life, the more I recognize the correlation between my successes and the number of problems I experience.
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Don't Go There
We are very adept at expressing and remembering the negative. It seems like the good “files” get further and further back in the file cabinets of our minds. Thus, they are harder to retrieve.
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