Thanks for listening to Ask Pastor John with Longtime Pastor and author John Piper, I'm

your host, Tony Ranky.

Well about a year ago we recorded an episode titled My Midlife Crisis in Council for Yours,

Episode 1137 in the Archive.

It was a very personal autobiographical account of a season of your life, Pastor John,

and it's now been listened to about 200,000 times.

It's generated a load of grateful emails in the inbox.

Since then we've gotten a lot of emails from guys going through this season of life

who really just want you to talk more about it.

Here's one from a listener named Leo.

Hello Pastor John, thank you for your APJ episode on your own Midlife Crisis.

That's where I'm at now, and you have helped me to see that I am not alone.

Thank you.

I was wondering if it was a combination of mission, life, stress, and genetics that caused

you to feel at times like crying and having a deep sense of depression.

It seems complex.

I recently reached 43 and noticed some changes in my mood and extreme depression at times.

Can you share more about your own experiences here?

Well I'm reluctant to talk about myself since I think it creates a kind of pleasant bond

for you.

Among us, we're wippy guys.

But it's nice to have comrades in misery, but it doesn't help all that much.

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