Status Updates From Seasons of Sorrow: The Pain...

Excellent. I heard Tim Challies speak in person at Write to Publish Writer’s Conference. He spoke about how writers must steward their sorrow and write through it so that others going through the same grief could feel seen. I was so touched and inspired, I bought the book. I’m glad I did and I recommend it right up there with A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis.

More tears. This is a powerful book.

Category #2 in the 2026 reading challenge: a book on suffering

“I am convinced God is usually achieving not one thing or two or three, but a thousand or two thousand or ten thousand. A little mind like mine cannot hope to put all the pieces together, to unweave the entire tapestry, or make sense of the whole. But I can have complete confidence that it is all according to the good plan of a good God, a God whose heart is always love, whose purpose is always love.”