I don't have to feel OK to be OK

Favorite quotes from songs by Relient K and Eleventyseven.

I don't know why I'm posting this....I just feel like it.

"I've been a liar and I'll never amount to the kind of person You deserve to worship You. You say you will not dwell on what I did but rather what I do. You say, I love you and that's what you are getting yourself into'"
Relient K - Getting Into You

"Never underestimate my Jesus. You're telling me that there's no hope, I'm telling you you're wrong. Never underestimate my Jesus. When the world around you crumbles He will be strong, He will be strong"
Relient K - For The Moments I Feel Faint

"I seem to get so hung upon the history of what's gone wrong and the hope of a new day is sometimes hard to see. But I'm finally catching on to it yeah, the past is just a conduit and right there at the end is where I'll be"
Relient K - Up And Up

"You give me hope, and hope it gives me life. When You touch my heavy heart and when You do You make it light. As I exhale, I hear Your voice and I answer You, though I hardly make a noise. And from my lips the words I choose to say seem pathetic but it's a fallen man's praise. Because I love you. Oh, God I love you. And life is now worth living if only because of You and when they say that I am dead and gone, it won't be further from the truth."
Relient K - When I Go Down

"Take back your 12-step self help programs and let me tell you all about how it was self that got me here in the first place and self that taught me how to replace everything I know with every other option but the only right way to go. Cause I've been feeling so temperamental and everybody's thinking 'mental, ha, key word'. The only hope I have to hold to is a promise. You put another life inside of me that's not my own"
Eleventyseven - 12 Step Programs

"My first impression is I don't think that depression is the tyrant that we make it out to be. Your life is yours to live for something way more positive than what you woke up feeling like today. I don't have to feel OK to be OK. I wasn't created just to live my life this way. I don't have to feel OK to be OK and I refuse to life my life this way"
Eleventyseven - Feel OK



You know what? I think lately I've been a hypocrite. When I praise God do I mean it? Am I sleeping when I'm praying?

I don't know. Maybe I am.

I've been getting really upset lately. I keep forgetting that I don't have to feel ok, to be ok.
That's really true. I haven't been living like that lately. Well you know what? I think it's time I did. I wasn't created just to live my life this way and I refuse to live my life this way.