Book Review: Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow
Friday, October 23, 2009 at 10:16AM 
Nancy Guthrie and her husband lost two of their children—two babies—to the same genetic disease. This book, she says, is “the culmination of my search for deeper understanding that has come with the perspective of years and further study of the Scriptures since writing my earlier book Holding On to Hope.”
Guthrie has built her book around eleven statements of Jesus that speak to the experience of sorrow and grief. What that give us is a thorough, biblical answer to the questions raised when we suffer, and when we’re experiencing the worst things in life, we need the full answer. It’s a wonderful thing to trust that there will be a glorious resurrection when all that hurts us is made right and whole in a way it never could be in this life, but it’s even better when we can understand that there is meaning in our sufferings themselves. We draw comfort, too, in knowing that our Saviour understands our sorrow because he experienced deep suffering. And there’s more, for those are the main points of just three of the chapters in Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow.
