Depression & Deliver Me

Depression, it is an extremely long tunnel without a lighted exit.
It is like drowning without the water.
It is like being lost in the darkness with a broken flashlight.

How do I know what depression is like?

Because I am depressed.
I'm not just having a bad day. I am clinically diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
Understand this, being depressed is not the same as being suicidal.
It is more like being paralyzed be sadness.

I say all of that because when I left work tonight, i started the car and playing in the cd player was David Crowder.
Not just any song by the goteed guitar freak of nature that I so admire. No it was THE song.
Interestingly, I recently realized that Crowder did not write the song. It is also performed by Sarah Brightman, star of Phantom of the Opera.
And it appears in that version on the soundtrack to the movie Brokedown Palace.

Anyway. The song in question is Deliver Me.
This song has always enchanted me somehow,
But tonight, it really meant something to me.
And so I share the words with you.

Deliver me
Out of the sadness
Deliver me
From all the madness
Deliver me
Courage to guide me
Deliver me
Your strength inside me

CHORUS:
All of my life
I've been in hiding
Wishing there was someone just like You
Now that You're here
Now that I've found You
I know that You're the One to pull me through

Deliver me
Loving and caring
Deliver me
Giving and sharing
Deliver me
This cross that I'm bearing

Oh, deliver me

Jesus, Jesus how I trust You
How I've proved You o'er and o'er
Jesus, Jesus precious Jesus
Deliver me
Come and pull me through
Come pull me through

*NOTE. If you or a loved one seems down, upset, irritable, or sorrowful for an extended period of time, seek some kind of professional assistance. Depression is a serious illness and affects millions of people.

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