Healing from Despair : Choosing Wholeness in a Broken World (Large type / large print ed)

The suffering that brings you to despair and even desperation can-with healing-become a source of hope, purpose and blessing.

Are you: Feeling anxious? Feeling depressed because of the loss of health, a relationship or a job?

Grieving the loss of a loved one? Grieving loss by a suicide? Feeling hopeless? Concerned about a friend who has suicidal thoughts? This wise and helpful guide explores the nature of personal suffering and brokenness and the potential for personal crisis as a source of strength and renewal instead of despair and death.

Examining the personal journeys of biblical and historical figures such as Moses, Maimonides, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Buber - as well as the author's own personal experience with despair - it looks at brokenness as an inescapable element of the human condition.

It traces the path of suffering from despair to depression to desperation to the turning point - healing - when first - hand knowledge of suffering can be transformed into blessing.