A Quiet Mind to Suffer With is the story of Christ’s nearness to author John Andrew Bryant’s own suffering―his mental breakdown, his journey to the psych ward, his 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.
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.
A Quiet Mind to Suffer With by John Andrew Bryant is available for purchase on amazon.com.
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