distress

The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

Then I__ suddenly reminded of how I get engulfed with nightmares of Mom__ death as soon as I fall asleep. Hesitantly, I call to him, __ey, Adrian?___eah?___an you hold my hand the entire night?_ My voice comes out as a quiet whisper.There__ a pause. I__ almost afraid to meet his eyes. Heartbeat picking up faster, his fingers interweave with mine and lace them together. I turn almost reflexively and I__ faced with his eyes__urning so green that it__ hard to look away. And for a second__ne second, there is this feeling that flits in my chest, making my breath catch.Then his eyes close and I blink slowly__eeling as I__ in a dream-like trance. Then mine slide close too after a while of memorizing this moment, this moment of silent peacefulness.The gentle pressure of his hand holding mine coaxes me into sleep.This time, there__ only a soothing blankness. And we sleep just like that; backs curved together, my head folded in his chest. As we hold hands, I fall into the awaiting darkness.

I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

Elizabeth__ tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening.

I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. __or if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world._ (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

Discouragement is root of distress.

Distress is a disease of the mind.

Loss of hope is root of distress.