The Voice in Your Head Isn’t Alone

When a person says they’re in hell, believe them. Imagine bombs, explosions, children being murdered, people being horribly assaulted—that is the life running through them. It’s strange how, as a society, we act when we see these horrors, but when they aren’t visible, we ignore them, discipline the person, and tell them to “suck it up.”

What this reinforces is judgment. We teach people that some things are allowed and others are not, instead of teaching that everything is allowed, everything is purposeful, and that we get to choose. But how do you truly choose when you are in a state of judgment? Heaven and hell as opposites are meaningless here—you can’t see clearly because the mind is in chaos. A mind in turmoil is a life in chaos; a body and heart in tension.

Depression, anxiety, and mental disorders are just as real as the place from where you are reading this. They are reality, forces shaped by environment and behavior. That behavior may seem “off” to you, but if you take the time to understand and not dismiss it, you will see. You will see what was right in front of you all along—but you refused to feel it because you feared it would drown you. And it is in the drowning that freedom reigns. That is where freedom lives.

What has been given to us is not ours, and if we do not know God—or the universal love that guides life—we will continue to give our own reality, and not His. Our reality, and not heaven’s.