Prologue This is the story of one woman's 13-year struggle to come to grips with  God, faith, and depression. The Shadow of the Valley of Death Depression is a strange beast. Whether it comes upon a person slowly or quickly, the depressive often may not realize that his or her perception of reality has changed. This is not unlike the infamous frog in warm water, so acclimated to the slowly-increasing temperature that he doesn't realize he's boiling until it's too late! Likewi

Depression is a strange, new world of darkness and isolation which grays out and reshapes each of life's varied experiences, dragging them all down to the same level of emptiness.