Total surrender is laying down our efforts to have a “good” life without God and confessing that we indeed need a Savior.

You can imagine the look on my husband’s face when I told him that I was done. Done. That was my word of choice instead of the other “D” word. Perhaps that meant I was more emotional than serious?

It was nice to feel somewhat normal again. After my personal experience with depression, I have even more respect and compassion for those to whom this is an ongoing experience. But the battle was far from over. I still hadn’t addressed my eating habits. At the time, I honestly felt that there were so many other things to keep afloat in my life, that wasn’t as important. I was sorely mistaken.