Anti-grace
Robert Lee Bennight I believe that self-rejection is the major symptom of all the depressive disorders people suffer from today. I think of depression as "anti-grace." Whereas grace is a gift of God's love that we cannot earn but in which we learn to live through our community of faith, anti-grace is also something that we are often born into by biology or initiated into by trauma that we do not deserve and in which we slowly die through isolation. The good news is that in Christ to whom we have been baptized, grace is the future reality. Anti-grace has no future beyond this malfunctioning biological shell. And even before we reach the future, each day is an opportunity to live into grace. And when we fail, and anti-grace seems to win, there is always the resurrection dawn that sets us on the path anew.