Do you have a first aid kit in your home? If not, you should. You may not plan on experiencing an injury, but sooner or later you will. So, it is good to be prepared. Having a well-stocked and accessible place for first aid supplies is prudent.
In like manner, those who live with an enduring trial are going to experience dark days and need supplies at ready access to see them through. Dark days are sure to come. Those living with chronic pain will face days when life seems overwhelming. Parents enduring a painful journey with a prodigal will experience days of deep distress as the latest crisis turns their world upside down. People plagued by memories of past abuse will have days when the horror of what happened to them haunts their every waking moment. Those living in the shadow of bereavement will have periods when they feel like life has entered a solar eclipse. For others, darkness descends with an unexplainable regularity—taking their mind into places they should not dwell.
How can we help people who regularly walk through such moments of darkness? We are, of course, powerless to prevent the arrival of days of distress, dread,
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