“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -A.A. Milne
My husband is constantly telling me how strong I am. Just today he said "You're stronger than you think when you're depressed or grumpy". My response was "I know but I'm tired of always being strong". It's true. I'm tired of always having to put on a smile when on the inside I feel like I'm dying. I'm tired of letting people around me make me feel like crap and no doing anything about it. I'm tired of feeling alone. I'm tired of being depressed. I wish I could just take a long nap and wake up not feeling tired.
I'm trying to remember that I can beat this. 1 Corinthians 10:13 says "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." Now I like to put trial in the place of temptation is this scripture, God will not allow us to suffer any trial about that which we are able to bear. God knows me he knows I can beat it but only with his help. That is something I haven't been doing. I always think I have to be strong and fight this war on my own, but I don't. Nobody does.
