Finding A Victory of Love Over Hatred In a Spiritual Garden

To Handle My Depression and Anger

When I have anger along with depression, my sadness and frustration intertwine.

It is common for this to happen when I hold the anger inside. I am told that when you swallow your anger, your stomach keeps scoring.

Knowing the relationship between depression and anger is crucial in helping me manage these effectively.

I do not enjoy the image of a Puritan Pecksniff turning up my nose at accidents and errors. I have determined that I only focus on the faults of others to keep my attention off of having to work on my liabilities.

I need to overlook the shortcomings of others!

And forgive and conceal their misdeeds, not expose their bad qualities, search for and affirm their praiseworthy ones, and endeavor constantly to be patient and merciful.

I am responsible for one life only, and that is my own.

Humans are immeasurably far from being “perfect as our Heavenly Father is ideal.” Perfecting my life and character requires all my attention, willpower, and energy.

The emphatic necessity to abstain from fault-finding motivates me, and I am eager to discover and root out my faults and overcome my failings.

At times like these, with my soul swirling in pain, I have found a good way to help myself — by visiting the garden of serving others:

“…if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you.” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

I write about addiction to substances, behaviors, and thistles of the soul. I consider human rights to be God-given.

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