The “5th/FInal Touch Edition” of the Book “Rise and Shine Anxiety & Depression & Life Management Tools”, which took 12 yrs. 10 months to write aside from the 25 years as a Worse Caser I was, is as COMPLETE of a TRUE Self-Help Book you will find… It Is TIMELESS providing the Necessary Details in Optimizing our Temple/Our Lives… i.e. Our Minds/Emotions (to a Great Degree if Struggle), Our Bodies (to a lesser degree), & Our SPIRIT (“At Least Half the Game in Life if consider Life a Game…“).

In Support of Faith Formation/ Faith Growth in Life which is the emphasis of section 4 in the Book, besides what the Book already addresses, I Highly Recommend tuning into a free Bible App, such as “Through The Word” (https://throughtheword.org/) which you can install on your cell phone or laptop. I find this App to be Extremely Important providing Necessary Interpretation of various areas of the Bible which can be Rather or Very Confusing. I can assure you, based on Personal Experience, we don’t want to just pass over those areas of confusion or ?s in mind, like a mild speed bump not thinking too much of, but it’s a Big Advantage to tune into this Bible App. “Through The Word” addresses All Old Testament, & New Testament Bible Chapters, beginning with the Interpretation of THE WORD in the Bible for each chapter, followed by THE WORD as we listen to & then Understand Appropriately to support Needs for Faith/Spiritual Formation & Growth… Very IMPORTANT I can Assure you!!!

I am Certain if I was aware of & utilized this “Through The Word” App in support of going through the Bible a few times which I have done, & then Understood what the Bible/WORD Truly says vs. the deceptive teachings I was subjected to in my formative years as addressed, & vs. Reading the Bible on my own as I was doing, all that I went thru in those 5 months of PAIN, would not have happened!… Although, because I have LEARNED So Much in Process, it was all meant to be, not only for the Benefit of Myself, but Certainly for the Benefit of Others which My Book Is All About… To HELP Others!

The “5th/Final Touch Edition” of the Book in section 4.1 Spirituality, addresses that last Weed/Issue within me, unbeknownst to me through my Whole Life actually till October 1/2024 when I Blew Out of a 5 months tail spin into Deep Depression I spiraled into mysteriously even after all I Learned thru that point in my Life… Yeah??!!… Shaking like a Leaf again & All, as I was Literally Unraveling! I NEVER/EVER thought I would go through any of that again after going through those 25 years as a Worse Caser, with Anxiety, Depression/Deep Depression, & OCD, having tried to end my Life twice, & 4Xs in the psych wards, & again have Learned All I have Learned & written about through 4 Editions of this TRUE Self-Helper! Anyway the 5th Edition of the Book, addresses All About what happened , & the subsequent Miracle & Awakening which transpired thereafter, which was Huge for me as I Know it would be Important & Influential for Others.

BOTTOM LINE reason why I began my free fall into Deep Depression was because I learned my kidneys were/are Failing (as I learned they are 17 % functional in the May 3/2024 time frame) as I was beginning to really feel the fatigue attributed to this condition… I became Very negative wondering, if I were to die tomorrow, am I Good for God/Jesus??!! This initiated my tumble into Deep Depression like a free fall… A few days later what made things More negative & down…. I swear I have No Idea How It Happened but when I woke up that morning & as I found out shortly after, I had a broken bone in my foot!? And I Swear, I Have No Clue How That Happened!!!??? I was doing lots of hiking before this & there was not a time where I recalled hurting myself in any way which could cause that, nor that evening did I fall out of bed or something like that ????… Hindsight tells me now, God has a plan for Everyone, & at times sometimes HE needs to put us through Trying Times for us to LEARN something we are just not seeing at the time but He is leading us to… Yes, I Certainly Believe that was happening here!… So I was restricted moving around with crutches only for the next 6 weeks which brought me down further… Fortunately though, I was not suicidal as I was earlier in my Life when I was going thru all I went through years back! Then there was another Major Stress-er which arose which has since been Understood & Resolved… THANKS GOD AGAIN & AGAIN… !!!!

Now as for the True Source of my Depression, this became quite Clear as I Lived the Pain & wrote of… I was born & raised Catholic & based on the misguided way of the Church & how it impacted me during my formative years, I felt I Needed to be Perfect to be Good in the Eyes of God/Jesus, contrary to the TRUE Christian Understanding I recently LEARNED & What the Bible Truly Says... So as it summed up, I had this Fear of God/Jesus in me MUCH MORE than the Healthy level of fear of God we Need!

When my Soulful/Christian Neighbors came to my aid as I was UNRAVELING & invited me to the Church they attend, Calvary Chapel, Refuge, in Huntington Beach, this made me Realize, Even though I have read the Bible a few times in my Life by then, I was just not Connecting the Dots Appropriately as I was reading The Bible/The WORD on my own, minus any form of Bible Study, or Fellowship which I recognize now to be Important! The stars became aligned for me when I heard the 3 Pastors at Refuge, in 3 Successive Sundays/Sermons which are handled like Bible Studies (The Way It Should Be!), as the timing of things could not have been More Perfect, considering my situation. They discussed The Most Important Question we should be asking, concerning our Faith/Spiritual NEEDS: i.e. “What are the Regulations/Requirements to be Good Enough In the Eyes of God” being Christian as written in The Bible?, which I do address in my Book to bring to the Attention of Others! … Something we all should acknowledge/question if Christians, or related (e.g. if Catholic in my case), or if we practice our Faith via a different Religion or Belief System... As I address, We Need to ask ourselves, are our Regulations/Requirements we have Practicing our Faith, Overly Strapping/Excessive/Unnecessarily Ritualistic, etc., similar to the Old Testament Ways & Laws of Moses which defined God’s Covenant during Old Testament prior to the Birth of JESUS, contrary to True Christian Requirements/Regulations derived from the Bible (New Testament)? I also point out in 4.1, The Most Important Fact we Know being Christian… in case there is no Belief in Jesus when Practicing Faith, then where is our Hope to be Good for God (?!), since Jesus provides our Only Pathway to GOD & Heaven as humans?

For Non-Believers & for those Living by their own way, I PRAY !!! Can’t Even Imagine… For Matters Outside our Control, or for Deep Depression or for Serious Levels of Depression going on, based on Personal Experiences, Nothing Else Is Going to Truly Help us other than Reaching Up High & Grabbing that Hand of God/Jesus Above for our Support! Support from other humans is So Limiting & there will Never Be A Magic Pill! And if you Knew anything about the End Times & what’s going to happen as Prophesized & as written in “Revelation” (Last Section in the New Testament), you would Likely Yearn for a Change in your ways & possibly/hopefully/Pray-fully begin Faith Formation & Growth !… If you never heard of what written, you can’t Imagine anything Worse than what is going to happen to us if Non-Believers, where the Bible says you will be experiencing nothing but “Weeping & Gnashing of teeth”… And Yes, “Through The Word” App will let you know all about this as desired…

Can’t Express to you How Important “Through The Word” has been since downloading it on my phone providing LIGHT & Clarity to those many areas confusion we come across while reading the Bible/Gospel on our own, where we question things!!! & To All, It’s Never Too Early to Start Faith Formation/Growth for You &/or Your Children, & “Through The Word” would be a Great Source of THE WORD/BIBLE To LEARN from :)… Urge you not to remain Unprepared nor Wait Too Long..!

GOD BLESS ALL!!!

Author Ron