Every human being experiences the ebb and flow of emotion. Exuberant joy gives way to sorrow; confidence ebbs into self-despising depression. Some ride an extremely tempestuous emotional ocean; others try to remain passionless and keep their feelings submerged.

Mood Tides examines the nature of the self as seen by famous thinkers and then searches the Scriptures to discover God the Creator's perspective. Our emotional self mirrors God's own being, and the rhythms of life are designed to help us experience and understand all that He wants us to learn. Sorrow and depression yield a narrowed focus--a keen insight into life, human nature, and especially our own weaknesses. Joy and excitement unveil the overarching plan of God and our special place in it. Accepting the heights and depths of emotion as natural and intended can free us to become the completed Christians that God desires us to be.