Dear Friends in Christ, I have suffered from depression for over 30 years now. I don’t know if it’s caused from a chemical inbalance or I’m just messed up. Doctors haven’t been able to help. People don’t dislike me but I feel they’re indifferent to me (at work) and basically I don’t have any friends. Christmas is usually a bad time for me cause there’s so much to do but I usually come out of it after the holidays are over. Well, the holidays are over for some time now and I’m just getting worse. I don’t know what I want God to do or what he wants me to do. But I want to experience God’s JOY. *** Also please pray the redemption of my daughter and her family. She’s 31, has 3 children, and is living with her ex-husband. They were not married in the church. I don’t know her religious beliefs because she refuses to discuss religion with me. My prayers were answered last year when she allowed me to have the grandchildren baptized! The 2 older ones attend CCD, have rec’d their 1st communion and confession, and I take them to Church on Sunday. I don’t like her ex-husband (long story that includes drinking, verbal abuse, sexual affairs, even kidnapped 2 children for a week). In my best moments I pray that the whole family comes to love Jesus and live in His will. *** Also please pray for my son who is 28 and single. He was sexually abused as a young child by a neighbor. He’s struggled with drug issues and basically can’t seem to get his life together as an adult (i.e., hold down a job, pay bills, etc.). He believes in Jesus and says he’s a catholic but he doesn’t think he needs to go to church, learn his faith, abstain from sex…basically he doesn’t have a clue what it means to live a christian life. He’s now living me with (again) enrolled and going to junior college, stopped heavy drugs but thinks smoking marijuana is still okay. *** All prayers for intercessions for my family are appreciated. Thank you.