The Deep Down Things - Print

The Deep Down Things: Practices for Growing Hope in Times of Despair.

By Amber C. Haines; Seth Haines.

Soft cover 192pp.
ISBN 9781587435638.
Brazos Press (2023).

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A lifeline for those who desperately need it that helps readers overcome despair, find hope, and spread that hope to an aching world. The authors show how tasting, touching, feeling and holding, pick us up, build our strength, and move us into beauty, even in times of despair. 

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There’s no escaping it: everyone experiences seasons of pain and despair.

This book is a lifeline for those who desperately need it that helps readers overcome despair, find hope, and spread that hope to an aching world.

When Amber Haines resigned from her position as church curate and walked out the church doors for the last time, she entered her own season of pain and despair. That season taught her – and her husband, Seth Haines – that the journey toward hope starts with recognising “the deep down things.”

Amber and Seth point to a simple truth: even in the darkest times, there are tangible signs of hope all around us. The authors demonstrate how tasting, touching, feeling, holding, and participating in these tangible acts of hope picks us up, builds our strength, and moves us into beauty, even in times of despair.

They invite readers to participate with those signs of hope and thereby experience the divine love of God, even in the struggle of their everyday lives.