Discovering God's Grace in Depression

A Personal Story of God’s Intimate Love and Sufficiency in My Brokenness

De: Heidi Austel

Narrado por: Heidi Austel

This audiobook 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 this audiobook, 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 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 for whom Jesus calls to show mercy. Discovering God’s Grace in Depression is honest, intuitive, insightful, and without clichéd answers. God’s amazing grace changes everything!

©2020 Heidi Austel (P)2023 Heidi Austel

An amazing story of what God can do in depression.

This is a very honest and raw description of what it is like to go through depression. Even more than that it is an amazing story of what God can do through depression an what His grace is for everyone who believes in Him. Heidi goes to great lengths to share her story in hopes it will help others going through depression and to help the loved ones of the depressed to know how to help them most. Most of all this book is about the grace of God. what he has done for all of us and how he loves us. I highly recommend this book.