Broken Open at Rock Bottom

Rock bottom is not only a place of pain. It is a place of formation.

Most books about suffering rush you toward meaning. This one refuses. Before it will tell you what the valley produces, it insists on telling the truth about what the valley exposes: the identity built on achievement, the certainty that was only performance, the gap between the face we present and the person we actually are.

Drawing on Scripture and the wisdom of the church — Job's protest, the Psalms of lament, Brueggemann, Nouwen, Willard — this is a book for anyone whose foundation has cracked. For the leader who has been exposed. For the believer whose faith survived the collapse but did not survive it unchanged.

It does not promise that you will get everything back.
It promises something better: that the breaking may yet become an opening.