Dana Hawkins knows what it means to struggle with difficult circumstances: a challenging childhood, an eating disorder, clinical depression, suicidal thoughts, debilitating physical pain, financial struggles, court battles to adopt a needy child--to name a few. Describing the heavy state of her mind while in depression, she speaks of the hopelessness, the anger, the very real feeling that she is seeing life through a film--that she is somehow separate and removed from those around her. But in her honesty, she also reaches out for and holds on to faith. Dana's story speaks to all of us because we all wrestle with pain, loss, and hurt--no exceptions. If we are human, we will have challenges. If we are faithful, we will make it through to the dawn of God's blessings--in this life and the life to come.
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