This morning I was struggling with a creeping despair that I recognized as depression.  For weeks now I have felt sad, weepy and worthless going about my daily tasks without thinking or feeling very much of anything except emptiness.  I felt the prompting of the spirit in my mind as I thought "you have to stop this and turn it around."  I knew this feeling....the still, small voice that has guided me to victory before.  I also knew how to turn it around. 

I went to my bedroom and reached for my scriptures...but my eye caught the most recent copy of the Ensign and I opened it to the article "Truth & Lies".  It spoke of despair, discouragement, despondency and depression as the lies that Satan uses to separate us from Heavenly Father and the joy that He wants for us in this world. I wept and released all the pain I had been holding inside, trying to toughen it out, as I recognized once again how God works in my life in spite of me.  I prayed that He would lighten my spirit and let me focus on the gratitude I have for so many things and let go of the petty defeats that had slowly crept upon me, entangling me in the grasp of Satan. 

I KNOW my Savior lives, I KNOW He loves me and died for me and wants me to be happy, joyful and free.  And I am, once I let go and let God.  Later today I pondered on the fact that God always, always answers my prayers when given from my heart. And I am grateful I am never alone and by listening to the small, still voice I was able to "turn it around" and move forward.