Book Sneeze Review

I read Beautiful Things Happen When A Woman Trusts God by Sheila Walsh. I was quite interested in the beginning, however I lost interest towards the end for a couple of different reasons. The book starts out by telling the authors story of being in a Psychiatric ward to help cope with depression. I really had hoped that the book would end with an awe-inspiring concept to help women with depression. I guess I set my expectations too high. The author uses different individuals from the Holy Bible to illustrate what she has learned through her experiences with depression. I enjoyed her life stories, but had an extremely hard time with the Bible stories. Not that I do not believe in the Bible; rather, I believe the Bible to be true as far as it is translated correctly. I have a problem with people saying they believe in the Bible, but they can’t seem to pick one translation to rely on…It seems to just be whichever version suits them at the time. I felt like the book just ended. And this is where I think I had too high of expectations. I was looking for something that tied the story about depression with the characters in the Bible and I did not find it in this book. I think that the author did a great job in the actual writing and layout of her book, but it just lacked that little extra that I was looking for…