Anna’s Reviews > A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ > Status Update

"In the wilderness we learn that Christ is not only the Word we've been given, but the Amen we've been promised... The tension between the Word we are led from and the Amen we are led to is the tension of trying to live."

Christ's return as the fulfillment of our Amens is such a beautiful concept.

I have mixed thoughts on this book so far, but I love John's ability to write and frame things beautifully.

"By (the) Word, the surprising pain of being human - and with it all things horrible and excruciating and unmentionable - is no longer, strictly speaking, ours. What's Wrong and What Happened have been offered to the Father through Christ's body. Everything that can be seen or felt is already a psalm. And has been made a psalm through Christ's body. Everything that can be taken from us is already prayer, and has...