'In a world where dark nights of the soul are inescapable, we need help seeing that it is not our circumstances that reveal to us the truth about God, but the truth of God that reveals to us the meaning in our circumstances. Refreshing and luminous, this book has the power to reshape our faith and fortify our communities.' SHANNAN MARTIN, author, The Ministry of Ordinary Places and Falling Free awakens us to our tender, tear-streaked Savior, who holds our hand through it all. Ramsey arrives as both neighbor and guide, deftly weaving vulnerable storytelling, clear theology, and a compelling therapeutic framework. This Too Shall Last examines-with moving honesty, sharp insight, and deep faith-what it means to suffer, how to suffer, and why an understanding and acceptance of suffering is essential to Christian belief and the Christian life.' KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, author, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books Yet everywhere around us, people are suffering. 'There is little, if any, place for suffering within the theology of many American Christians. Together we can encounter the grace that enters the middle of our stories, where living with suffering that lingers means receiving God's presence that lasts. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t. Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Instead, God invited her into a bigger story. Instead, she encountered the God who chose it.
had to find a way across the widening canyon that seemed to separate God's goodness from her excruciating circumstances. Over a decade ago chronic illness plunged therapist and writer K.J. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? When your prayers for healing haven't been answered, the fog of depression isn't lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won't go away, it's easy to feel you've failed God and, worse, he's failed you. We silently, secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament we can avoid or annihilate by working hard enough or having enough faith.
Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide, or the sad start of a transformation story. This book is not a before-and-after story.
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