A Quiet Mind to Suffer With Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

<b>Publishers Weekly starred review · Christianity Today Book Award Winner · ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award Winner ·</b> <b>Illumination Book Awards Gold Medal Winner · Southwestern Journal of Theology Book of the Year Honorable Mention</b><br/><br/><i>"This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recommend it highly enough."</i> --Matthew A. LaPine<br/><br/><b>Suffering has been made holy by Christ's proximity to it.<br/></b><br/>This is the story of Christ's nearness to my own suffering--my mental breakdown, my journey to the psych ward, my long, slow, painful recovery--and how Christ will use even our agony and despair to turn us into servants and guests of the mercy offered in his gospel.<br/><br/>We cannot answer suffering. And yet suffering demands an answer. If Jesus is the answer to suffering, what kind of answer is Jesus? Everything that could be taken from a person was taken from him. The worst things a person could be made to see and feel were seen and felt by Christ. All of this came to a point in the nails driven into his hands and became a word that cannot be unspoken--his body broken and his blood poured out for us. Suffering has been made holy by Christ's proximity to it.