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Cold Plunge thoughts.

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Well, Merry Christmas.

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Today's the day that we celebrate the birth of Christ.

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I am so grateful for him in my life. I know that he lives. I know that he's my savior.

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And I know that because he lives, I'll be able to live again.

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And I'm so grateful for that. I know that because of his sacrifice for me,

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I can overcome my weaknesses and the things that I'm not very good at and develop

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and become more like him every single day.

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That's the truth. That's not something that I believe or hope.

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That's something that I have felt about four or five years ago, something like that.

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I was really, really depressed. rest.

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And I haven't really struggled with suicide in my life, but at this time,

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I just wanted to, I was out on a fishing trip and I just wanted to be back home.

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So I thought about how I could get injured enough that I would have to go home

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and stop the fishing trip, but not so injured that I would die because I didn't want to die.

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And then one night I was struggling

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with this and i was in

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the tent i just poured out my heart to god

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and i said i can't carry this anymore it's too hard this is too much for me

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in that moment i felt the atonement of jesus christ work in my life that was

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when i knew that it was real those feelings went away and I overcame my depression.

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That's just a little thing. It's not as hard as what other people go through.

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But for me, it was enough to know that Christ did sacrifice for me.