A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ

Suffering has been made holy by Christ's proximity to it.

This is the story of Christ's nearness to my own suffering-my mental breakdown, my journey to the psych ward, my long, slow, painful recovery-and how Christ will use even our agony and despair to turn us into servants and guests of the mercy offered in his gospel.

We cannot answer suffering. And yet suffering demands an answer. If Jesus is the answer to suffering, what kind of answer is Jesus? Everything that could be taken from a pers...