Connie Cook

Wrestling with God Connie Cook

"If God is supposed to be so good and so loving, why does the world look the way it does?" It's a question that must be faced by every believer in a good and loving God. The question will accost us on an intellectual level, and there are some solid intellectual answers. But when the question accosts us on a heart-wrenching, emotional level, there are seldom any answers. Humanly-speaking. And from God, the questioner often hears only a resounding silence. The author has wrestled with the emotional aspect of this question (and with the good and loving God it questions) through six years of crippling, life-threatening depression. This is a live, play-by-play commentary on some of those wrestlings, recorded as they were happening: a Diary of a Depression(or one Christian's diary of one Christian's depression). In the words of her diary, here is the reason the author has opened up these intensely personal pages to the reader: "I'm coming to think that is one of the whole points of this season for me. There will be people who will be more open to listening to someone like me who has huge doubts and questions and daily faith-quakes than they will someone full of cocksure assurance [...] It's the greatest gift there is in suffering: the gift of fellowship; the gift of alongsideness; the gift of GETTING IT."