Tony Lobl has a deep interest in the role spirituality can plan in restoring and sustaining health. His thoughts about mental health seem timely to those of us in Kansas who are joining the rest of the country in the struggle to make sense of how to understand and help our service men and women facing mental health issues. Please enjoy this excerpt from Tony Lobl’s Huffington Post UK article that takes us beyond depression to spiritual dawning. Below the excerpt there is a link to the full article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1e5NzbWqTQ#t=15
For a couple of weeks I’d taken snapshots of glorious dawn skies from my bedroom window and posted them on Facebook, to modest acclaim from a few faithful friends.
But skies change and I’d woken up to heavens which were the epitome of dreariness – grey, leaden, a real joy-dampener. Photographing and sharing that morning’s daybreak would have been a complete waste of digital space.
Until, that is, the sun obligingly punched a tiny hole through the monochrome. The breach grew, broadening into a swathe of brightness that, in turn, suffused the encircling grey with a transforming light. Indeed, the vast greyness itself became a canvas onto which the day painted its promise.
That scenario brought to mind a phrase that had stuck in my mind since reading an article on Prozac’s 25th birthday…