"My prayer for you is not that you live a life that's only sweet and never bitter, but that in even the bitterest of moments, you will find the comfort of Christ, deep and enduring, powerful beyond all imagination."
Thus ends Shauna Niequist's reflective collection of essays on life, change, and grace. And throughout her book she shares her own life's tale of these elements and what she has learned about them through tragedy, pain, loss, joy, love - and how they all point to the great Comforter. I love that she ends with this sentence because life is a collection of days both bitter and sweet, not segregated from one another but interwoven, equal, often simultaneous. And through it all, the pain and the joy, we have One who can relate to it all and bring us to a place of peace.
BOTTOM LINE: Her book is raw and honest, as well as humorous. It sounds so cheesy, but every time I picked it up I felt kind of like I was sitting with a good friend, hearing her story, gleaning advice.
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