My prayers will be with you.

I lift you up now to rest in the palm of His hand and at the foot of the cross.

Too tired right now for the fingers to work but the heart goes with you.

He holds you even when it seems you're going it alone, remember he's as near as your breath and will breathe His life into you.

Michael, I had panic attacks for over a year as one of my earliest symptoms of Lyme. Then came depression. Not knowing that I had Lyme until many years later, I went to seek some help.

I began antidepressant therapy which gave me blessed relief and has made a huge difference in my life. Lyme as you know I'm sure can affect our brain chemistry and my serotonin levels had dropped severely resulting in my symptoms.

Don't mean to give medical advice, just to share my personal experience. I'm sure your physician is aware of your struggle with the panic and I trust he will be working with you to help resolve this miserable condition.

You are in my prayers that you will find appropriate therapy and blessed relief .

Streams in the Desert
Achieving the Victory
by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

"For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a weight of glory"
(2 Cor. 4:17). (Weymouth)

"Is achieving for us," mark. The question is repeatedly asked--Why is the life of man drenched with so much blood, and blistered with so many tears? The answer is to be found in the word "achieving"; these things are achieving for us something precious. They are teaching us not only the way to victory, but better still the laws of victory. There is a compensation in every sorrow, and the sorrow is working out the compensation.

It is the cry of the dear old hymn:

"Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee,
E'en tho' it be a cross that raiseth me."

Joy sometimes needs pain to give it birth. Fanny Crosby could never have written her beautiful hymn, "I shall see Him face to face," were it not for the fact that she had never looked upon the green fields nor the evening sunset nor the kindly twinkle in her mother's eye. It was the loss of her own vision that helped her to gain her remarkable spiritual discernment.

It is the tree that suffers that is capable of polish. When the woodman wants some curved lines of beauty in the grain he cuts down some maple that has been gashed by the axe and twisted by the storm. In this way he secures the knots and the hardness that take the gloss.

It is comforting to know that sorrow tarries only for the night; it takes its leave in the morning. A thunderstorm is very brief when put alongside the long summer day. "Weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh in the morning." --Songs in the Night

"There is a peace that cometh after sorrow,
Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow,
But calmly on a tempest that it stilled.

"A peace that lives not now in joy's excesses,
Nor in the happy life of love secure;
But in the unerring strength the heart possesses,
Of conflicts won while learning to endure.

"A peace there is, in sacrifice secluded,
A life subdued, from will and passion free;
'Tis not the peace that over Eden brooded,
But that which triumphed in Gethsemane."

Welcome Hikin Mike,
Really enjoyed your web-site, the love you have of nature and of course the Creator.
I noticed you're a Californian and the fact that you love to hike rings a sweet familiar ring....

I have a daughter living in San Francisco who's an avid hiker herself. My husband and I will be visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday. We'll have to check out your recommendations and perhaps take a hike with our daughter while there.

We've gone on several along the coastline in the past which was breathtaking.

May the Lord Bless you. May the lord keep you. May the lord cause his face to shine on you. father, thank you for this fellowship. Please help us to heal and to help us heal each other.

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Originally posted by treepatrol:
Heres the first prayer started link.
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001227.html

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