Mangled Doves

Mangled Doves

Compilation of short stories, poems, drafts, sketches and notes dating from 1981 to 2001.

ALL IS GRACE

All Is Grace: A Memoir of Finding Grace in Marriage through Mental Illness invites you to find holy, abundant grace in your own wilderness of mental illness and to tear off the veil of lies about your suffering. As Samantha Cabrera takes you on her journey through her mental illness in marriage, she gently comforts your wandering and wondering soul to find grace in the waiting and the pain of major depressive disorder and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder; she demonstrates how God turned her broken pain into transfiguring pain. She shows you how her own unspoken pain was always—always—met with grace and through this, you may find hope for your own healing. You will find yourself meeting grace at the turning of a page and begin to wonder at the love God shows you; it was through the grace and prayers of her husband that Samantha began to see God's radical grace in her own life, and thus, was able to change because of it. Isn't this what grace does? It doesn't leave us the same. He doesn't leave us the same. Aside from journeying with Samantha through her own mental illness, she inspires readers to end the silence of mental health and to become strong advocates for their own unspoken pain. All Is Grace: A Memoir of Finding Grace in Marriage through Mental Illness will give you the hope to breathe and to know that while it may feel like you're a dried pressed flower—it takes seeing the grace of God to know you're still breathing, still alive, and still flourishing. If you suffer from any mental illness, this book will sit with you in your pain, whisper consolations to your one broken heart, and tell you that there is a holy hope that exists if you only take part in it.

To Suffer the Crown