A Devotional for the Depressed and the Insane

About the Book

My thoughts were, when I discovered that I had ADD, "Well my life is mostly over and now I find out that I have ADD. What could I have accomplished had I known about it when I was younger and could have possibly made the right adjustments to succeed where instead I merely stumbled?" A question... Yet that question, like any other question, is something you don't sit on. Because if you do, you really don't want the answer, you want to wallow in self-pity. But if one pursues it, even when some aspects of it appear to be (at least in our lifetime) unanswerable, one pursues their life. Answers will come. And sometimes they will come in unexpected ways that words can't quite express. Yet our hearts can feel those answers...and they can take you to places that you never thought you could ever go to. If your heart is touched and if you keep on following forward, you'll indeed find yourself in places that you would have never thought of. But please don't stop! That's the purpose of this book, "A DEVOTIONAL FOR THE DEPRESSED AND THE INSANE". We get stuck. I believe that a great deal of humanity , me included, just give up. We settle. But...what if we're not meant to settle, to give up? Then maybe we were meant to live, to really live!...to our dying breath (and maybe even beyond that...)? Who knows? If we're not supposed to surrender ourselves to the well-that's-just-the-way-it-is mentality then, for sure, we stand a chance of finding ourselves depressed and, maybe, a little insane if we do surrender. This book is for whoever picks it up. This book is for whoever is struggling. Each day a moment to read and then answer a question or two; just for yourself. Write them down in the NOTES/THOUGHTS part if you want to. It will become your book. If you pursue those questions and those answers, it will become a chronicle of your journey, your adventure... No longer a devotional. But your story. ...The devotional will become a story...about you.

About the Author

I have attention deficit disorder (ADD) and have struggled with depression from my childhood on. Unable to understand the problems that I encountered through my life, but knowing that "something was wrong" raised a lot of questions for me. I had just recently rediscovered a zen axiom which implied that in the question is the seed to an answer. Since my childhood I have had those questions. And the answers came with more questions; but I also felt that those questions, when addressed honestly, began a spiral journey upwards in my life. An honest question deserves an honest answer. Live an "open door". Through this process of questioning I found my christian faith. However it didn't just end there. Oh no! I still struggled. But I kept on, in fits and starts, with my quest: my questioning of the whys-and-wherefores in my life. Surprisingly, I discovered that my faith gave birth to more questions which, in turn, seemed to cast a light on new answers. A progression. Always going forward; like a journey... ...Along the way, just recently, I discovered I had ADD. Here I am a grandfather, and now what do I do with the rest of my life?...which is, of course, another question drawing me further along into the rest of my life. The journey seems to go on. And with that I have to kind of subjectively guess that maybe, just maybe, our lives are not meant to be stationary; but we are meant to be always moving...journeying...on an adventure! Because that's what it has been for me.