{"id":24202,"date":"2026-03-11T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/how-prayers-of-gratitude-can-help-you-fight-depression\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:47","slug":"how-prayers-of-gratitude-can-help-you-fight-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/how-to-pray\/how-prayers-of-gratitude-can-help-you-fight-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"How Prayers of Gratitude Can Help You Fight Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had been coming for months. I was in a strange, dark place. For the first time in my life, I was depressed. Not merely sad, but depressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/coping-with-illness\/guideposts-classics-mike-wallace-on-coping-with-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinically, it turned out.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seemed to last forever, but it didn\u2019t. God eventually lifted me out of depression; it was an answer to prayer as well as the fruit of weekly sessions with a good counselor. And some overdue changes in diet and exercise, as well as an adrenal fatigue supplement. But I\u2019m convinced the biggest contributor to my recovery was prayer.<\/p>\n<p>God is my salvation from depression, and prayer was a daily means of grace to me. I honestly can\u2019t recall if my counselor suggested it or if I came up with the idea. It was probably me; let\u2019s go with that. But at some point in my battle with depression, I determined never to lay my head on my pillow for the night without <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/cat-tell-us-your-story\/celebrity-stories\/6-journaling-tips-from-debbie-macomber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recording in my daily journal<\/a> at least three prayers of thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I gave thanks for simple things: \u201cfor the hummingbird I watched just moments ago and for the sparrow that nearly sat on my lap. Thank You for the beauty and functionality of Your creation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes (just across the page from that last prayer) I wrote out thanks on special occasions: \u201cTHANK YOU! for my wife of 31 years, and this day on which we celebrate our anniversary. Thank You for all You\u2019ve given me through her, all You\u2019ve taught me through her, all the ways You\u2019ve changed me through her and all the blessings that are mine because of her, chief among them being, of course, herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And some were for <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/friends-and-family\/parenting\/children\/everyday-blessings-childlike-wonder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fairly ordinary blessings: <\/a>\u201cfor a day of health and work and time with family\u201d or \u201cThank You that I get to sleep in comfort tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Day by day, however, by giving thanks for just three things\u2014and many days, of course, I exceeded the minimum I had set for myself\u2014I found my focus shifting from all the things that seemed to be wrong in my life to the many more things that were right and good and even wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be careful not to minimize the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/caregiving\/family-caregiving\/caregiver-stress\/how-she-coped-with-her-husbands-depression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reality and seriousness of depression.<\/a> It can be debilitating and even life-threatening, and I\u2019m not suggesting that \u201ccheer up\u201d is a meaningful prescription for overcoming it. Remember, my recovery included counseling, diet, exercise and more. But I believe nonetheless that prayers of gratitude were tremendously influential in overcoming my depression.<\/p>\n<p>In my life, <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/better-living\/emotional-and-mental-health\/how-singer-michelle-williams-copes-with-depression-and-finds-joy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gratitude has been both vaccine and antidote to depression,<\/a> discouragement, bitterness and resentment. <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/caregiving\/family-caregiving\/advice-for-caregivers\/how-to-help-when-your-loved-one-is-depressed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maybe it can help someone else too.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been coming for months. I was in a strange, dark place. For the first time in my life, I was depressed. Not merely sad, but depressed. 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