The other day, I was feeling pretty discouraged and I was thinking how nice my dog's life must be. "She has nothing to get discouraged about...or stress about...or feel sad about." Then, I realized the only thing I think might make her sad or discouraged would be when she thinks that my family and I don't love her. But that's ridiculous, I thought because we do love her. Then it hit me that that's really where the root from my discouragement, depression, etc comes from. We see things happening to us that don't seem to be "good things." When those things happen, we forget that God loves us. BUT, HE DOES! In Romans 8, it says "And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose." God loves us all the time. We really have no reason to be depressed or discouraged because "if God is for us...who can be against us?"