There's a reason...

... I already had a tag for Caryll Houselander.  The editors of Magnificat coupled this reflection of hers with a recent daily Gospel reading from Luke 12: 35-38.  (I'm noticing a theme of anxiety/depression in my last couple posts.  It is on my mind, not for myself right now although I have & can struggle with it, but because of a few loved ones who are suffering with it.)

Stop trying to think out a solution for the moment: there isn't one.  One day there may be; God will then show it to you.  In the meantime, accept it all as being the big thing for God and his Church that he asks of you- that, and the depression too.  You will find the relief of merely accepting, instead of struggling, wonderful; and I include in this, accepting anything in yourself, during the crisis, which seems to you a failure or a fault.  Don't exonerate yourself, but just say you are sorry, briefly, to God, and add that your name is dirt- that's what is to be expected from you- but you're sorry, you are forgiven, and it is over...