{"id":490,"date":"2020-05-16T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camcobra.com\/home\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-06-01T03:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:24:27","slug":"refreshing-my-energies-by-renewing-my-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/2020\/05\/refreshing-my-energies-by-renewing-my-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Refreshing my energies by renewing my faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Originally published October 1, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever go through one of those slumps that convinces you you&#8217;re depressed, only to discover that it&#8217;s not depression at all? Since making a tough call about employment and breaking off a potentially amazing friendship before the label even got out the gate, I&#8217;ve been tossing around a few emotions. So the other day, I said aloud (because saying things aloud makes them real), &#8220;I think I&#8217;m depressed,&#8221; and I felt nothing. It didn&#8217;t become real. So I tried, &#8220;Geez, this is the worst slump I&#8217;ve experienced in years.&#8221; That struck a chord, and since then I&#8217;ve been working on getting out of that rut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What helped? Recognizing that for every disappointment, letdown, and setback, there are plenty more reasons to be grateful for something. Tonight&#8217;s sermon on day-by-day renewal was just the confirmation I needed: I&#8217;m going to start acknowledging life&#8217;s blessings in general; I&#8217;m going to up the ante when discouragement tries to slip in. If you&#8217;re experiencing a downward spiral in your life, before writing off your feelings as depression, consider that you have a choice about how to feel. And as much as possible, choose to count your blessings and discount your fears. What life blessings are you counting tonight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published October 1, 2014 Ever go through one of those slumps that convinces you you&#8217;re depressed, only to discover that it&#8217;s not depression at all? Since making a tough call about employment and breaking off a potentially amazing friendship before the label even got out the gate, I&#8217;ve been tossing around a few emotions&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,24,39,26,15,38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gratitude","category-inspiration","category-introspection","category-motivation","category-reclaimed","category-reflection","category-self-improvement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}