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Holding On When You Want to Let Go Study Guide: Clinging to Hope When Life Is Falling Apart
Are you struggling today? Do you look back and long for what used to be, or are you looking ahead and have no idea what's coming? Are you stuck in the middle of a mess because life has not turned out as you expected? When you run to God for answers, do you often feel like you aren't getting them--or at least aren't getting the answers you want? Are you holding on . . . but not sure how much longer you can?In times of not knowing, Sheila Walsh offers a lifeline of hope. With great compassion born of experience and hardship, Walsh comes alongside the hurting, fearful, and exhausted to remind us that we serve a God who is so much greater than our momentary troubles, no matter how insurmountable they feel. She doesn't offer a quick fix. She offers a God fix. Sharing from her own painful struggles and digging deep into biblical stories of rescue, hope, and miracles, she gives you the strength to keep going, to keep holding on to God in a world turned upside down. The accompanying study includes 10 lessons to help individuals or groups dive deeper.
102 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 21, 2021
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Sheila Walsh
249 books589 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Sheila Walsh (05-07-1956) is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and best-selling author with more than 4 million books sold. A featured speaker with Women of Faith®, Sheila has reached more than 3.5 million women by artistically combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with God's Word.
Author of the best-selling memoir Honestly and the Gold Medallion nominee for The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila's most recent release, The Shelter of God's Promises, has also been turned into a DVD curriculum and in-depth Bible study. The Gigi, God's Little Princess book and video series has won the National Retailer's Choice Award twice and is the most popular Christian brand for young girls in the United States.
Sheila co-hosted The 700 Club and her own show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh. She is currently completing her Masters in Theology.
Twitter @SheilaWalsh, facebook.com/#!/sheilawalshconnects
Sheila Walsh (05-07-1956) is a powerful communicator, Bible teacher, and best-selling author with more than 4 million books sold. A featured speaker with Women of Faith®, Sheila has reached more than 3.5 million women by artistically combining honesty, vulnerability, and humor with God's Word.
Author of the best-selling memoir Honestly and the Gold Medallion nominee for The Heartache No One Sees, Sheila's most recent release, The Shelter of God's Promises, has also been turned into a DVD curriculum and in-depth Bible study. The Gigi, God's Little Princess book and video series has won the National Retailer's Choice Award twice and is the most popular Christian brand for young girls in the United States.
Sheila co-hosted The 700 Club and her own show Heart to Heart with Sheila Walsh. She is currently completing her Masters in Theology.
Twitter @SheilaWalsh, facebook.com/#!/sheilawalshconnects
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December 10, 2022
This study guide is meant to be used with the book of the same name, and, if available, the video series. Excerpts are included in the study guide. Questions are very fitting and thought provoking. Prayer is encouraged. As with the book, the author points to the Lord, our Healer, the One who holds us. She includes her own experience with honesty and transparency. I highly recommend using it, as it is very beneficial to the reader.
This is my review for the book it is based on:
This fabulous book is the very best that I have read by Sheila Walsh! If you are not familiar with her, she is a Christian sister who is scripture-oriented and loves the Lord with all her heart. She talks and writes about certain challenges with scripture, compassion, and experience. Many people avoid talking about depression; some even think that if Christians are clinically depressed, they don’t have enough faith.
Are you or someone you love suffering from depression? Has it been the kind of thing that might leave for a long period of time and return? Whether it is for yourself or another person, I’ve found the best time to read a book like this when one is doing well. If I waited to rush into a bookstore or online seller when I feel as if the floor is dropping away, and didn’t find something helpful quickly, I just might not bother. This time, I purchased the book, read the book and did the Bible study, and know the resource I have if I need it, or if a friend is suffering and needs someone to hear their heart.
Absolutely God is my Healer. He speaks to me in the Bible. Just as in grief or twelve-step groups, there is much to be gained from listening to someone who has been there. That is one of the things Sheila Walsh is for me; she has been there, and she understands. She has had Christian counselors who hold out the light of Christ when the world seems dark. Ms. Walsh shares hope from the promises of God, the lives of those who lived in Bible times, and her own experience. For as long as I’ve heard her or read her books, she is transparent about her own struggles with depression and even, at times, suicidal tendencies. She also has a gentle sense of humor that brings relief – sometimes that we aren’t the only ones who forget to plug in the power cord before switching the button to the “on” position.
Ultimately, she points us to the One who is holding us, the One who hears us, who gave up everything for us to have heaven as our final destination. I highly recommend this book to anyone who lives with, or knows someone who lives with, clinical depression, who wants to know more about the God who holds us and find the sweet hope on which to hold.
This is my review for the book it is based on:
This fabulous book is the very best that I have read by Sheila Walsh! If you are not familiar with her, she is a Christian sister who is scripture-oriented and loves the Lord with all her heart. She talks and writes about certain challenges with scripture, compassion, and experience. Many people avoid talking about depression; some even think that if Christians are clinically depressed, they don’t have enough faith.
Are you or someone you love suffering from depression? Has it been the kind of thing that might leave for a long period of time and return? Whether it is for yourself or another person, I’ve found the best time to read a book like this when one is doing well. If I waited to rush into a bookstore or online seller when I feel as if the floor is dropping away, and didn’t find something helpful quickly, I just might not bother. This time, I purchased the book, read the book and did the Bible study, and know the resource I have if I need it, or if a friend is suffering and needs someone to hear their heart.
Absolutely God is my Healer. He speaks to me in the Bible. Just as in grief or twelve-step groups, there is much to be gained from listening to someone who has been there. That is one of the things Sheila Walsh is for me; she has been there, and she understands. She has had Christian counselors who hold out the light of Christ when the world seems dark. Ms. Walsh shares hope from the promises of God, the lives of those who lived in Bible times, and her own experience. For as long as I’ve heard her or read her books, she is transparent about her own struggles with depression and even, at times, suicidal tendencies. She also has a gentle sense of humor that brings relief – sometimes that we aren’t the only ones who forget to plug in the power cord before switching the button to the “on” position.
Ultimately, she points us to the One who is holding us, the One who hears us, who gave up everything for us to have heaven as our final destination. I highly recommend this book to anyone who lives with, or knows someone who lives with, clinical depression, who wants to know more about the God who holds us and find the sweet hope on which to hold.
June 11, 2022
EXCELLENT!! Finished reading February 14, 2022
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