In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, encouraging ourselves.

All of us have gone through situations and circumstances in our life that we didn't like, and oftentimes we became maybe despondent,

maybe even depressed, or feeling the distress of the situation.

And this is a world we live in, and we can't change all the

circumstances, and it's no point in majoring on that.

So what we have to do is to decide, how am I going to respond when I go through these

difficult times?

Now, I think most of us would agree that if we have a close friend that we can share things

with, someone that would be honest with us, someone that would be confidential, someone who would be an encourager.

That if we had that, that sort of takes away a little of the pain.

But then there are those situations that you can't tell anybody about.

There are distressful things that happen to you personally or in your life that you would be too

embarrassed to tell somebody else.

Their heartaches, their burdens, their things that go on in the family, they're things that

go on in the person's finances and their relationships, in their plans.

You can't tell anybody else about.

So how do you respond to these distressing situations

and you feel like I just can't tell anybody? You can oftentimes see that in somebody's

face. If you're close to them or you watch them or you work with them close by, you can tell when

they're sort of down. Something's different. And if you say, well, can I help you in some way?

They would say, no, I'm fine. Well, you know they're not fine. But at this point in their life,

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