Go. Be. Do.

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe.    Acts 14:19-20 Can you imagine what it took for Paul to get up and go back into that city?  The very city where the people who had stoned him within inches of his life, lived? Courage is defined online at merriam-webster.com  as "the ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous." When Googled , courage is said to be "strength in the face of pain or grief." Life often presents hardships, failures, vulnerabilities... You put yourself out there and wham!  Out of the blue something hits you that you never saw coming. Perhaps you saw it coming and you could not or did not swerve out of its way. Or, just maybe, you opened yourself up to a new idea or tried something new a

Sitting on the couch watching the news and browsing fb at the same time, my eyes did not want to believe what the headlines were saying.  I really thought it was a cruel hoax going around on fb because the tv news had not reported it yet. Then, it hit the screen as breaking news. Robin Williams was found dead; apparent suicide. That night, I sat numbed by the reality of it all; saddened by the disease that dictated this was his only way out. Mr. William's death has affected me deeply, unexpectedly.  I have been asking myself what has made his death different than, say, that of Andy Griffith, another of my all time favorite actors. The answer most assuredly lies within this tragedy's cause itself...depression...or as I refer to it, the unspeakable struggle.  Not many want to talk about it and even fewer want to hear about it or believe it to be worthy topic for conversation. If you have never suffered from depression, whether situational or clinical, stop right now and g