Ramsey writes as a friend, kind and gentle, in the thick of it too. How grateful I am for these costly pages. I couldn't help but feel the weight of what this book cost to live, let alone write for K. I need to know that my pain is seen by the Lord and I'm loved just the same when I'm not doing well, especially when my pain lasts. And as much as I love happy endings and successes, my heart aches to hear the stories of suffering well. So often, suffering is shared after it is over. Coming from a background that only linked this term with sin and shame and the impossibility of ever being pleasing to God, I breathed a sigh of relief when the baggage associated with the term was both acknowledged, and then the word is given a new way to wear an old definition. Also, the prose is beautifully written.įor me, the crowning jewel was in the re-treatment of the term repentance in chapter 10. I gathered both new perspectives on suffering, and explanations for experiences I've never been able to find the right words for. KJs voice is incredibly compassionate and deeply honest as she leads us to look at our suffering with fresh hope: not hope for the suffering to disappear, but the hope of discovering a grace that wraps arms around us while we ache. Here, the theology of our suffering meets the practicality of neuroscience, and experiencing the pain of our stories becomes an open door into the presence of God. I could sit with each chapter in this book for a week.
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