Depression

Depression

Depression is that problem which nobody likes to talk about, but which a lot more of us have been through than we normally admit.  It seems that, in our times, staying happy all the time is deemed to be the normal Christian experience.  But in reading the Word of God, one comes away with a very different view.  Paul speaks of times he was so discouraged, he despaired of life. Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet.  The stories of Ruth and Naomi, Job, the testimony of Peter and his many flaws – we have to be realistic enough to know that there are going to be times we’re discouraged.  For those who are, or those who counsel them, these selections are the books we’ve found amazingly helpful.