Right now, Somebody needs your support. Somebody needs you to have faith in them. Somebody wants to be forgiven. Somebody needs to know your love is unconditional. -- Author Unknown

Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
   Ephesians 4:32

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Hope and Assurance

This website was created for those acquainted with mental illness and in need of hope and assurance.

Question of the Month

I have heard it said that God will bring good out of bad. How can anything good ever come out of mental illness?

I understand what you mean. Mental illness can be so very cruel. It is debilitating, confusing, life-threatening, long standing, and a merciless robber.

When we understand that everything good comes from God, we know He is not the author of our diseases and problems. He is the Way out of them. He is the One Who teaches, guides, and woos us to want to learn, grow, and change. His plan for our life is never to harm us but to give us hope and a future.

Use mental illness as a reason to seek God out and get to know Him. God knows more than your psychiatrist, is stronger than your medications, and gives more answers than any battery of tests. He knows you better than any therapist because He put you together in your mother’s womb and sees your heart. He has no office hours and He is available for as long as you want to stay. When you choose God as your Physician, yes, good can and does come from mental illness.

“My hand is not shortened and it is “stretched out still,” longing and waiting to be allowed to bless and help and save. Think how tenderly I respect the right of each individual soul. Never forcing upon it My Help, My Salvation. Perhaps in all My suffering for humanity that is the hardest, the restraint of the Divine Impatience and longing to help, until the call of the soul gives Me My right to act. Think of Love shown in this. Comfort My waiting, loving, longing Heart by claiming My Help, Guidance, and Miracle-Working Power.” from God Calling, September 27.

Contact

I welcome your comments and suggestions about this website. If you have a question that you would like addressed, please let me hear from you.

My email address is carolyn@hopeandassurance.com.