Dealing With Darkness- Depression, Anxiety, Addiction, Fear, etc.
Dealing With Darkness The rising sun dispels all darkness. Watercolor by Nikki One day after working with a client who was suffering from severe anxiety, I was pondering depression and anxiety and how it is such a plague of our day. The very next morning during my scripture study, I came across a story in Helaman chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon; one which I had read a hundred times but until then, had never seen anything but a story. This time reading, the Lord opened a new level of understanding to me. Nephi the son of Helaman and his brother Lehi left their professions to go teach the gospel and actually had incredible success is some areas, even among the Lamanites. At one point, when among a more hardened group, they were imprisoned for several days without food. When these Lamanites and defectors came to slay them, Nephi and Lehi were “encircled about as if by fire, even so much that the Lamanites could not hurt them”. The Lamanites were overshadowed by a cloud of darkn...