Depression convinced Elijah that nobody else was as badly off as him. He felt 'terminally unique.' We all go through it. Behind your neighbor’s smile, or the nameplate on your boss's door, there are struggles they can't talk about. So they live in quiet despair. Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'We may have arrived on different ships, but we're all in the same boat now.' Paul wrote, 'No test or temptation...is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; He'll never let you be pushed past your limit; He'll always be there to help you come through it' (1 Cor 10:13).Before every crown there's a cross. Bunyan wrote Pilgrim's Progress in prison. Florence Nightingale, too ill to move from bed, reorganized the hospitals of England. Pasteur, semi-paralyzed by apoplexy, was tireless in his attack on disease. Francis Parkman couldn't work for more than five minutes at a time. His eyesight was so bad that he could only scrawl gigantic words on a manuscript. Yet he wrote twenty magnificent volumes of history. You're not unique! And you're not alone! Listen: '...nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable - absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love...' (Romans 8:38-39). What more could you ask for?