Bittersweet

Bittersweet:Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way 

by Shauna Niequist

Prologue

“What I didn’t understand until recently is that he wasn’t speaking to me as a theologian or a pastor or an expert, but rather as a person whose heart had been broken and who had been brought back to life by the story God tells in all our lives. When you haven’t yet had your heart really broken, the gospel isn’t about death and rebirth. It’s about life and more life. It’s about hope and possibility and a brighter future. And it is certainly about those things.

But when you’ve faced some kind of death – the loss of someone you loved dearly, the failure of a dream, the fracture of a relationship – that’s when you start understanding that central metaphor. When your life is easy, a lot of the really crucial parts of Christian doctrine and life are nice theories, but you don’t really need them. When however, death of any kind is staring you in the face, all of a sudden rebirth and new life are very, very important to you.”

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Sounds like an inspirational read and fitting for our lives right now. Have any of you read this book?