This book is Heidi's story of learning to live with her clinical depression which lasted almost 12 years. Feeling crushed under the deepest despair she had ever known, she found that everything that functioned so well before, including her faith, simply didn't in depression. Feeling lost in an endless sea of shame, judgment, confusion, anger, fear and grief, how could she live this way?
For 12 years, as she daily wet her pillow with tears of pain, loneliness, unacceptability and feeling unloved, God graciously demonstrated His mercy and compassion to her. He showed her how to reconcile her faith with her illness by rebuilding her from the inside out with a faith that worked, even in depression. Far from offering a book of formulas, Heidi's honest, intimate storytelling will thoughtfully walk you through her journey and how God showed her a way to bear up under the incapacitating effects of depression. As she weaves her story throughout the pages of this book, Heidi lovingly, passionately and exhaustively addresses the worst of the symptoms that she experienced and offers, you, the depressed, insight and challenges to help you reconcile biblical faith with your depression.
In addition, loved ones, family members, pastors and church leaders, YOU need this book as much as they do. Heidi offers you insight and suggestions regarding how to be more helpful to them. Many want to minister to the depressed but, if you do not understand them, how can you know how to ease their suffering? Let Heidi be their voice. She offers you the amazing, grace-based, biblical principles that helped her bear up under the heavy weight she was experiencing.
This book is an eye-opening call to embrace grace for yourself and to teach biblical, grace-saturated, gospel principles to be more effective ministers to these whom Jesus calls us to show mercy. Discovering God's Grace in Depression is honest, intuitive, insightful and without clicheic answers. God's amazing grace changes everything!
