部落格作者（博主）寶妮•葛蕾（Bonnie Gray）在她所寫的一篇文章中，講述了排山倒海的憂傷如何衝擊她的心靈。她說：「毫無預兆地，在我人生最開心的階段──婚姻美滿、家庭幸福之時，我突然開始陷入極度恐慌及憂鬱。」葛蕾試圖尋找不同的方法來處理她的痛苦，但旋即意識到自己不夠堅強，無法獨自解決。「我不想讓任何人質疑我的信仰，於是我默默承受，祈求憂鬱症能不藥而癒。但上帝要醫治我們，祂不要我們感到羞恥，也不要我們躲避痛苦。」葛蕾來到上帝面前得著安慰和醫治，在那即將吞沒她的驚濤駭浪之中，上帝作她堅固的錨。

當我們身處低谷，心中充滿絕望時，上帝也在那裡，祂必扶持我們。大衛讚美上帝在他快要被敵人打垮時，將他從低谷中救拔出來。大衛說：「[上帝]從高天伸手抓住我，把我從大水中拉上來」（詩篇18篇16節）。即使絕望有如汪洋中的巨浪，就要將我們吞噬，但上帝依然深愛著我們，祂會伸手救助我們，領我們到平安穩妥的「寬闊之處」（19節）。當生命中的挑戰讓我們感到力不能勝時，願我們能倚靠祂，因祂是我們的避難所。

In a recent post, blogger Bonnie Gray recounted the moment when overwhelming sadness began to creep into her heart. “Out of the blue,” she stated, “during the happiest chapter in my life, . . . I suddenly started experiencing panic attacks and depression.” Gray tried to find different ways to address her pain, but she soon realized that she wasn’t strong enough to handle it alone. “I hadn’t wanted anyone to question my faith, so I kept quiet and prayed that my depression would go away. But God wants to heal us, not shame us or make us hide from our pain.” Gray found healing in the solace of His presence; He was her anchor amid the waves that threatened to overwhelm her.

When we’re in a low place and filled with despair, God is there and will sustain us too. In Psalm 18, David praised God for delivering him from the low place he was in after nearly being defeated by his enemies. He proclaimed, “[God] reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters” (v. 16). Even in moments when despair seems to consume us like crashing waves in an ocean, God loves us so much that He’ll reach out to us and help us, bringing us into a “spacious place” of peace and security (v. 19). Let’s look to Him as our refuge when we feel overwhelmed by the challenges of life.