For more than 20 years, he'd been a missionary to the far east, with a sterling record of ministry in starting missions and helping churches. But he was terribly depressed and walked around bent forward, head down, looking at the ground most of the time.
In therapy he told his secret-- he was addicted to pornography and had been all his adult life. His life-long poor self-image was exacerbated by guilt from his actions and the terror of being caught. Depression was the residue from it all.
Depression isn't a feeling, it's the result of feelings that are unexpressed and unfinished, like shame, fear, guilt, anger.
Healing begins when the secret is out-- it did for this man of the cloth-- who now stands tall and proud. Telling the secret does not automatically fix the problem but it is the required first step.
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