You’ve had a battle with depression through the years. What is that like?
I have probably struggled with depression since my teen years and didn’t even talk about it until I adopted our second child (Stevey Joy) and I did an interview. It was that place of, “If I’m going to do this, then I’m going to be authentic and open, and I can’t put the smile on my face and pretend.” With God, I’m going to win it, and I just want to be authentic about the fact that I know that I know that I know that He’s going to be showing me more about Himself through it, but I also know that there are professionals that can help me. If there’s been a battle, and it’s ongoing, then it’s better to praise God. Obviously when I lost my daughter, it knocked it back a few hundred miles, and we still have these deep places of sadness, and I, of course, being more prone to the depression, tend to kind of feel a little bit deeper. But God always meets me. On a lighter note, you tell on yourself in this book, some embarrassing stories? God has a way of making us not take ourselves so serious
