Overcoming Depression 

Our state contains 600 violent gangs and 10,000 gang members. No, this is not South Africa or Baghdad, but the beautiful US state of Maryland. I could get very depressed about all this or I could look on the positive. No matter where we live in this world there will always be something negative which we could focus on: the decades long drought in Australia, the Russian mafia infiltrating Europe, or global warming drowning Pacific island nations. After all the medicine is gone and we are still faced with a troubled world, how do we cope in an age where there seems to be no hope? Psychologists tell us that we must re-train our thinking and develop a positive mental attitude. Call it what you will, it is not new medicine but an idea at least as old as Paul's encouragement to an ancient Greek church (Philippians 4:8).