Comments on: Why do my prayers seem to hit the ceiling due to my depression? https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jodie https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33404 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:57:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33404 Great advice

]]> By: Jodie https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33403 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:56:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33403 Excellent answer. I really needed to hear this

]]> By: Robert https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33201 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:05:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33201 During those times when I don’t feel the Spirit in my prayer, I turn it into a gratitude prayer. I forget about asking for anything and just start with the day of my birth and go through my entire life with the Lord, thanking Him for everything I can think of. For being sent to angel parents, for my wife and our happy marriage, for each one of our children, etc., etc. I go though and mention ever spiritual experience I ever had, and every blessing I can think of. Sometimes it takes me an hour to do so. But when I’m done, the Spirit is always there and it is strong. I can’t recommend the gratitude prayer highly enough.

]]> By: alaskan59 https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33200 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:23:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33200 Wow, so profound. Thank you Gramps. I too know one who struggles with depression, but at this point in his life he wouldn’t bother asking like this sister did, let alone do as you have suggested.. one day he will! Bless you dear Jann…

]]> By: LHS https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33199 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:42:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33199 I learned through my own depression and feeling like this that I was looking at this wrong. My prayers went through the ceiling and were heard…. what I couldn’t hear was the answer! So many times depression has an effect on not only the body but the spirit and it lessens our ability to feel the Lord’s love or hear his voice because depression seems to dampen it like being stuck inside a padded, isolated room.

I remember asking for a priesthood blessing to release me from this heavy darkness that I may once more feel the light – and without fail, each time I was granted this in one way or another, and was once more able to feel His love and His spirit with me, answering as He always had.

At times we may feel abandoned, but it is the veil of mortality and the difficulty of how we see through a glass darkly that dampens our ability to hear him, but he is ALWAYS there, and ALWAYS answers.

]]> By: Debby Buckley https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33197 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:12:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33197 What was unacceptable about my comment?

]]> By: Debby Buckley https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33196 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33196 I must believe that my Heavenly Father loves me enough to reach down to my ceiling and lift up my prayers.

]]> By: Debby Buckley https://askgramps.org/why-do-my-prayers-seem-to-hit-the-ceiling-due-to-my-depression/#comment-33194 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:45:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=29517#comment-33194 You must believe that our Heavenly Father loves us enough to reach down to our ceiling and lift up our prayers.

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