FOODFORTHOUGHT

Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes,” has a reputation as a tenacious reporter and journalist. But she writes in her current memoir “Reporting Live” that it was after her marriage in 1977 that she faced the greatest challenge of her life.

Her husband, writer Aaron Latham, suffered from severe depression. Mike Wallace, her colleague at “60 Minutes,” who had suffered his own bout with depression, convinced her to get her husband to a doctor.

Ms. Stahl admits that staying with Aaron is the thing that surprised her most. “I was a great walker-outer,” she writes. During one fight she went so far as throwing her clothes into a suitcase and calling a cab. Her husband said, “Stay and work this out, and in ten years you’ll look back and say, I preserved this family.”

“We talked. We cried. And we agreed to try. Now it’s l9 years later,” Ms. Stahl remembers with joy, “and it’s the thing I’m most proud of.”

We all have problems and issues in our lives that we would much rather walk away from than face. We all have “demons” that so drain us of hope and happiness that we surrender to them rather than confront them. Jesus drove out the demons that destroyed the lives of those possessed. As Lesley Stahl found within herself and within her family the strength to confront the “demon” of depression that threatened to destroy their home, in the love of Christ we can find the strength of grace and the clarity of honesty to confront the “demons” that divide our families, sever our friendships, and rend our spirits in hopelessness and despair. Don’t let any more time go by without confronting one of your demons. “In Christ, all things are possible.”

PRAYER

Lord, keep me close to you that I shall always call on you to guide and help in all my trials and problems. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen