Depression is easy to fall into, especially during a time of year so focused on holidays.
Yet with reliance, trust, and praise, the soul must strive to pass its tests and find calamity to be a means to an end of love, faith, and joy. The Baha'i faith stresses the importance of not allowing troubles to burden the soul. Sorrow not if, in these days and on this earthly plane, things contrary to your wishes have been ordained and manifested by God, for days of blissful joy, of heavenly delight, are assuredly in store for you. The writings describe difficulties not as punishments but as steps on the path to God. A troubled person is actually a soul being beckoned by God's loving light, a call for the soul's attention to God's ultimate plan.