A. Robert Hirschfeld

With Sighs Too Deep for Words (eBook, ePUB)

Grace and Depression

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A meditation and prayer companion for Christians who struggle with depression.

The stigma around mental illness in our culture has had a damaging effect on those who suffer from its grip. As a priest and bishop, Hirschfeld has quietly and secretly been in treatment for depression for decades but now shares his own experience publicly. In this book, he offers short meditations, prayers, and suggestions of how one can follow and call upon Jesus for strength and peace during times of emotional upheaval.

Christians often feel that their experience of depression or mental illness is a reflection of a deficit in their faith. As a result of seeing depression as a moral shortcoming or spiritual failure, we risk more damage to ourselves and even hurt those around us by denying what is really going on. This book, with its prayers and practical suggestions for spiritual and creative practices and resilience, can be a companion for those who suffer so that they may know more deeply the resilient love of Jesus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640652613
• Artikelnr.: 62837178

Autorenporträt

A. Robert Hirschfeld served as a parish priest in academic communities (Yale, University of Connecticut, the Five Colleges of the Amherst, Massachusetts region) until becoming the Tenth Bishop of New Hampshire. His studies in literature and existential philosophy have informed his interpretation of the scriptural themes of alienation from God and the restoration of human dignity in Jesus. He lives in Concord, New Hampshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Depression and Joy
Chapter 2: A Peculiar Kind of Pain
Chapter 3: Mystery
Chapter 4: Waiting for the Beauty of the Ruins
Chapter 5: A Ruin in the Woods
Chapter 6: The Practice of I AM
Chapter 7: Moving the Immovable
Chapter 8: Tormented
Chapter 9: Parochial Anorexia
Chapter 10: Opening the Mind
Epilogue: Living in the Realm of Nonetheless
Resources
Acknowledgments