I Trust When Dark My Road

• I’m amazed at how much money stresses me out. YEesh…. #
• The sun is shining. God is merciful. #
• DMR How many books would you use? http://tinyurl.com/nhkfer #
• DMR The Book Looms Ever Closer http://tinyurl.com/mpd8yf #
• http://darkmyroad.org/?p=319 #
• What does the suffering parishioner want from their pastor? #
• DMR My general views on exercise… http://tinyurl.com/onltxj #
• Mark 3:21 And when hhis family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He iis out of his mind.” #
• Grrrrrr…. #
• DMR Physical and Mental Illness, and how we treat them differently http://tinyurl.com/odkqls #
• DMR Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24 http://tinyurl.com/o698f6 #

I am currently working with my publisher to determine a quantity. If you were able to get copies of my book FOR FREE, for use in your congregation, district, circuit, etc, how many would you want?

No commitment. This is just an informal poll.

-DMR

Friends,

For those of you who have been on this journey with me for a while, you know that I have written a book that is in the process of being published.  Well, we are through doctrinal review, the copy editing is done, and I just got a sneak peek at the cover.  It looks great!  I don’t have a final ETA on the printing time yet, but we’re getting closer every day.

One thing that I know they/we are considering right now is making it available in both print and electronic editions.  I’m hoping we can get it out in as many formats as possible.  It’s not long.  People who suffer from depression don’t have the time or energy for tomes.  But I’m working on some of that material right now.  Any thoughts you have would be great!

Thanks for all your support, everyone.  You have all been a godsend to me over the past three years.

The title of the book, by the way, is

I Trust When Dark My Road:
A Lutheran View of Depression

-DMR

I am currently laid up with a physical illness. Nothing serious, so don’t fret, but it reminds me again of how differently we treat physical and mental illness. Here’s a little compare and contrast:

1. In physical pain, we seek to find the cause and solve it. In mental pain, we try to suppress it.

2. In physical pain, the one in pain receives sympathy and care. In mental pain, the sufferer is avoided because they are somehow tainted or weird.

3. In physical pain, the congregation prays for the afflicted. In mental pain, the afflicted suffers alone because mental pain is never shared.

4. In physical pain, the assumption is that this is not the sufferer’s fault. In mental pain and illness, the assumption is that there is something wrong with the person.

Those are my initial comparisons. What’s on your mind?

-DMR