SAD (SOUL Affective Disorder)

Many of us are suffering from SAD (Soul Affective Disorder).

 Soul Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that's related to changes in seasons of life. SAD begins and ends at various seasons in life. If you're like most people with SAD, your symptoms start when you have fallen away from relationship with the Light. This disorder will continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you worry, stress and suffer from feelings of disconnectedness. If left untreated SAD can and will cause depression, darkness and in some cases lifelessness.

Good news, there is a cure for SAD.

 First step: Light Therapy. “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, 'I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.'”(John 8:12)

 Second step: Prayer. The Lord is my light and my salvation: My God shall make my darkness to be bright. Blessed are you, Lord God, creator of day and night. To you be praise and glory forever. As darkness falls, you renew your promise to reveal among us the light of your presence. By the light of Christ, your living Word, dispel the darkness of our hearts that we may walk as children of light and sing your praise throughout the world. In Jesus name. Amen.

Third step: Daily reading and meditating on the Word of God. ”Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)

 Fourth step: Share your light with another that is suffering from SAD. ”For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” (Colossians 1:9-14)

Do not brush off that feeling of SAD as though it is only a passing thing or a seasonal life funk. Do not attempt to fix it on your own. Take the above steps ASAP. This will keep you in the light and your steps steady throughout all seasons. “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” (1 Peter 2:9 )