The View from Rock Bottom, Stephanie Tait
The View from Rock Bottom, Stephanie Tait
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The View from Rock Bottom
Discovering God’s Embrace in our Pain

Author: Stephanie Tait

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/19/2019


Synopsis

I had found my rock bottom, and instead of pulling me out, the God of the universe met me there in the rubble.

What is your response when your life turns upside down? When you lose your job? When you receive a difficult diagnosis?

Do you blame God or beg Him for a way out of your suffering? In more than a decade of misdiagnoses and debilitating treatments, Stephanie Tait admits she did plenty of both before hearing the two words that had drastically altered her life: Lyme disease. Yet she has discovered it's in her pain that Jesus is most present. Through personal stories and biblical examples, you will learn that suffering

● connects you to God as He meets you in your moment of pain

● strengthens your community when you allow others to comfort you in your sorrow

● gives you greater appreciation for life's goodness as you gain an eternal perspective

Even if the healing never comes, there is something sacred in the suffering. It's from holy rubble that God makes all things new.

About Stephanie Tait

Stephanie Tait is a blogger, speaker, author, wife, mother, and Jesus follower. Her fifteen-years and counting battle with Lyme disease has reshaped her view on the goodness of God. She makes her home in Oregon, where she lives with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cara on May 16, 2019

Yes, the church needs a theology of suffering, and Stephanie Tait’s new book - which, really, acts as more of a theological, bible study and guide - is a great place to start. I only wish I’d gotten to read more of her story!......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on May 17, 2019

In The View From Rock Bottom Stephanie Tait meticulously examines the role of suffering in her own life and in scripture, fiercely rejecting any interpretation of one that does not include the other. She reaches out from the pages to draw the reader in with compassion and questions that make the boo......more

Goodreads review by Rozanne Visagie on December 19, 2019

Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. This book deserves 10 stars! I can't begin to describe how this book changed my view on suffering. Though this book contains a lot of pain, it's through the pain that the message comes through that God is always there. We often think......more

Goodreads review by Moriah on July 29, 2019

If you are tired of reading testimonies with neatly tied up, happy endings, this is the book for you. Stephanie Tait shares the painful details of the traumas she has experienced and her realization that she had deeply internalized the messages of the prosperity gospel. "The View from Rock Bottom" i......more

Goodreads review by Kristina on December 11, 2021

Stephanie's book is so beautiful. She boldly wrote honestly through her suffering and without an end in sight. This isn't a book that looks back on a painful time, it's a book written from a lifetime of pain. It is full of hope, real hope, not a "choose joy" cheap hope but real hope that pushes on t......more