Everyone suffers from levels of anxiety and majority of people have experienced a taste of depression in their life. Anxiety and depression are not just figments of our imagination. They are real struggles and it’s time we name it for the sake of our mental and spiritual wellness. From Ministry Matters –“We have an Incarnational God who gets right down there in the muck and mire of our messy lives, right along with us. Jesus is called “Immanuel”: the God who is with us. As followers of Christ, that is our call, too. The call is not to sit on our thrones of judgment, telling people to have more faith or be less selfish, but to get messy with them, walk with them in their pain, point them to the God of hope. Don’t shame them. It doesn’t help.”