Kay Warren - Peace of Mind Tyler Conference 2014

[@beverlypasco262]

I can not thank you enough for this transparent testimony of hope. Thirty eight years ago, my mother ended her life because of mental illnesses. The available drugs and “treatments “ did not help. I was carrying a big load for many years before I picked up my first Bible. I was 45 years old when I started to read my first Bible. The gene that is called depression was passed on to me too. I don’t take drugs for it, scripture has been my medicine. I am a young 69 year old and so far The Word of God has pulled me through many dark moments . The Lord has made Himself real to me and He is my go to for pain. It’s taken me decades to learn to make Him my first choice. I publicly declared He was my first choice, privately despairing was my first choice. It took me years to sort it out and be real with myself. I have been truly blessed by the knowledge and wisdom I have found in the Bible, and hearing your generous testimony today has released me from the residual anger I buried. Because of people like you who openly discuss this subject,…many people will be liberated from their buried pain. You are raising awareness, you have validated pain, which the church is not good at doing! By living out your purpose, I am being healed in ways I could not imagine. I thank my mom and Matthew for helping me to be the person that God sees me to be. Everyone be kind to everyone some of us who suffer from depression put up a great front. Let us talk, let us know that the Lord Jesus Christ is real and His Love is deep, He did not promise us a happy life but something better. A life full of Hope , Peace, and Joy. He alone can be Trusted. Thank you Kay Warren for allowing Him who loves, who dispenses truth, gently, to use you. You, your amazing husband, and Matthew have blessed me and touched my heart. Quiet tears are flowing as I type this out. Please pray for me to have the courage to be used by Lord as so many suffer in silence.May the Lord keep your family near His heart. Hope to meet you somewhere, perhaps in heaven. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌹🌹🌹🌹🌍✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@martielowe9871]

So encouraging .... thanks, Kay

[@christavanrosmalen]

Thank you, Kay. Thank you, God

[@kroaroorocro]

He is with us. He is with us always. Thank you for choosing hope & setting an example for other believers.

[@vkfcle3411]

I suffer with depression but I have been a Christian since 1979. I was recent hurt by someone. After hearing this I now choose joy. Thank you for this.

[@happytime7222]

Incredible. Thank you for sharing I too have depression since childhood We have some very ignorant people today. Our churches need to be enlightened about this topic

[@se5442]

I am 34 months out from my son's suicide. And yes, I MUST hold on to the only hope I can find - hope in Heaven. But I could not be the one speaking this encouragement. It's too hard. Too eternally, painfully devastating.

[@VickiBee]

That's how it is with my daughter that I lost, not to suicide; to miscarriage at 25 weeks along. It was so far along, I had a name picked out. Even though I was an EMT-D at the time, it felt like a galvanic shock when I lost her.

[@sarahimcoles7115]

Amen to that x

[@et1016]

What is your proof that God didn’t abandon your son? There’s simply no way you can know that. You can hope that but you can’t know that. Those are two very different things.

[@VickiBee]

I hate to say it but I don't always know that: "that God is with [me] in times or struggle." I WANT to know it, but in reality - and while I was watching my loved one be literally demolished inside Tower 1, where he worked until Sep-11-01 - I was no longer the least BIT certain that God was with me. All I could do was continue having the visceral reaction I was suddenly consumed with after Tower 1 was attacked and wonder why this was happening at all, much less consider why I was being forced to witness the demise of my loved one, who was the opposite of every reason the killers gave for why they did it. He was never greedy and even people who did business with him directly, people who would know, specifically stated on his Memorial Guestbook page that he "never conducted business in the way some people did." I'm sorry I can find no sense in why He let that happen to someone like Eric. He didn't cause it, no; but He let some people make it out of the towers alive and those people never shut UP about saying "God's the reason" they made it out alive. Okay? So what are we supposed to think is the reason Eric DIDN'T make it out and probably died begging for help that never arrived because the floor he was on was blocked from help in all 5 directions. The killers blocked 4 of the exits on purpose. I don't see why so many people DON'T want the remaining killers (at Guantanamo Bay) to receive capital sentencing. I want them to receive capital sentencing & I don't care who thinks I'm "not Christian" for it. I've never heard that God approves of capital murders and that's what this is. I didn't make it a capital murder. The Supreme Crt did, back when it was a SANER court.

[@VickiBee]

I don't know about anyone else but it doesn't seem like someone continuing to live while 2,977 people remain dead because of things that person did, is "justice" for the victims of murder.

[@mikepiccolo32]

whatever