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Article: In God's hands: mental illness and the soul.(christian souls trust in God)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 2, 2006
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SINCE ONLY God is the source of all healing, it is appropriate that the Christian soul sometimes searches for God more in depression than in health. But the soul reaches out and often cannot find. Depression increases our longing for the Healing One yet veils our view of him. "We were made for Thee and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee" (Augustine).
Even the best things of the world never fill the soul--and in mental illness, for the Christian, this is more agonizingly the case. Nothing in the world satisfies, but the longing is intensified. All becomes a seeking for God, for God's blessing and God's comfort. Yet even while this longing is ...