13 Then young women will dance and be glad,
young men and old as well.
I will turn their mourning into gladness;
I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
Anti-depressants are the most widely prescribed drugs in the US today. Everyone goes through ‘doors of despair’ and ‘bubbles of grief’. Sometimes properly prescribed anti-depressants can help you walk through these horrible times.
One of my favorite songs is “It Won’t Rain Always.” No one is a stranger to sorrow. It is a normal part of being alive. You need to experience it; embrace it; feel the scope and sequence of it; and release it and go on with your life. Once you intimately know sorrow, grief, and despair, you become stronger. You realize it does not last forever. It passes naturally and then you can be filled with gladness.
When the world says, "These drugs will take an edge off your depression,"
God says, "I will turn your mourning into gladness."
Heavenly Father, there isn't a part of me that doesn't hurt. Everything aches, everything weeps, everything sobs in the darkness of my heart. If I could just make it all go away, nothingness would be better than this. But you whisper to me in my grief that all this blackness will be changed into glory. I'll be happy again. I'll smile and the smile will feel good and someone will love me again. You'll do this for me, God, I know you will. I trust you. As dark as it is now, you will make it light. You'll turn this mourning into gladness. Amen.
OATH OF ALLEGIENCE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PREAMBLE TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.
