Deidre Lail

INTO THE DEEP
By: Angie Smith

📖About the book:
There’s no question it’s easier to live in shallow water, where we can touch the ground without risking anything. We’re all just trying to keep it together, hoping to find some sense of safety in our chaotic world. But as a result, we aren’t really living. We’re stuck in survival mode, saying we want relief but filling the silence with noise, hungering for connection but hiding our true selves, claiming we want freedom but clinging to control, saying that Jesus is enough but living like He’s not. We’re trying to live deep, meaningful lives with surface-level tools―when we know we were created for more.

The world will never tell you that you’re enough. But you can take a deep breath, loosen your grip, and trust Jesus to be in the water with you.

📖My thoughts:
I read through this one slowly, and even now after turning the last page, I’m going back through to write all the highlighted parts in my journal (which is almost every page).

I’ve read and loved everything Angie Smith has written (her Seamless study is one every woman needs, seriously), but dare I say this one is her best yet.

Which honestly, I don’t need to rank them, but the message in Into the Deep seems urgent - at least for me.

The tagline, Finding Relief from Pressure, Exhaustion, and the Need to Perform in a Shallow World, is the perfect summary of all she addresses in this short book. I felt silly after a few chapters because I had highlighted almost every paragraph and written in most of the margins.

When a book is validating, you know it’s special; when a book gives you practical ways to move forward long after you’ve read it, you know it is meant for healing. Written with Angie’s wit and sarcasm (we would expect nothing less), Into the Deep feels like you’re sitting down and talking with a friend.

My rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️