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Hope for those suffering from poor mental health
Many years ago, I experienced a terrible mental breakdown due to chronic stress, that, but for the grace of God, could have broken me completely.
My life was left in tatters. I had to leave my Engineering career, could no longer drive, was filled with anxiety, frequent panic attacks and occasional seizures. I was never sure during these dark times whether I would see out the end of each day. This lasted for many years.
I was given a special grace though, to understand that what was happening to me was ordained by the Will of God, to rid me of my pride and all earthly attachments. I had a wife and six children, a mortgage and was unsure how i was going to support them in their material needs given this mysterious disability and crisis that had been thrust upon me. Every day was a battle and I turned to prayer like never before. I let go and made a leap into the darkness and trusted. This was too big for me to deal with on my own and I duly handed over to Mary, my Heavenly Mother. I had made a consecration to Jesus through Mary in my youth and needed urgent assistance from heaven. She took me into Her arms next to Her heart, consoled me like a little child and took care of everything. I was granted a supernatural resignation and peace of the soul that is difficult to describe. I knew for certainty that everything was going to be okay, and everything was. God in His Infinite Wisdom and love, willed the complete breakage of the old man in order to commence a transformation process that would produce a new one. The old man was worldly, proud, arrogant, impure, utterly wretched, the new man was spiritual and modeled on Christ.
The physical and mental sufferings above could not be compared to what came later...Intense spiritual sufferings and diabolical oppresion / obsession. God permitted the devil to throw everything he had at me over many years and had I not been sustained by God's grace would have surely fallen to the depths...
To anyone reading this who is suffering terribly...Never give up on life, God has a plan for you. Persevere to the end and be saved, there is always hope, You are utterly unique, you have something special that no-else has, this will be revealed to you in eternal life.
And...Know this for certain.
God loves you with a perfect love and is routing for you every step of the way.
Be comforted in the knowledge that whatever you are going through, you are going through by the express Will of God. Remember as Saint Paul teaches "And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to His purpose, are called to be saints." [Rom 8:28]
The suffering that you are going through is God's mercy for you. It is your cross, carry it, embrace it, for through it He wants to make you a saint.
Don't waste your suffering. Unite it to the sufferings of Christ's passion and death on the cross and offer to the Father in union with Him. In this way you will share in God's plan of salvation for the world. Your suffering united to Christ's becomes redemptive and meritorious.
Just let go, make an offering to the Father of the sacrifice of your own will united to the Divine Will of Jesus for the salvation of souls.
Our Blessed Mother in union with the Holy Spirit is the sweet comfort sent by Christ, the very Source of consolation for our souls in this vale of tears. In all your strife call out to Her, She is very near to you. Recall the words of St Bernard of Clairvaux.
When you follow Mary, you will not go astray; when you pray to her, you will not despair; when you think of her, you will not err; when she sustains you, you will not fall; when she protects you, you will not fear; when she leads you, you will not become tired; when she favours you, you will arrive safely. She keeps her son from striking us; she keeps the devil from hurting us; she keeps our virtues from escaping us; she keeps our merits from being destroyed; she keeps our graces from being lost.
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If you have time, please listen to this heavenly chanting from Harpa Dei, it will heal your soul and bring you great peace amidst your suffering.