As she looks back on her previous depression, she can see deliverance in a way she didn’t expect: God gave her the gift of faith to cling tenaciously to the one who holds her. Yes, it takes a certain amount of spiritual maturity to appreciate such things, but even those who know her recognize that she has been transformed into an increasingly glorious woman through her trials. She has seen a redemptive deliverance. The thing she feared did happen, but God did something in her in the midst of it that she recognized was for her good and his glory. It was worth it to her.
