This thirty-one-day devotional engages the spectrum of what it means to be fully human. Not only does it draw the weary, anxious soul into Scripture with a Trinitarian focus, it creatively involves creation, our hearts, our minds, and, most delightfully, our physical bodies. Be ready for a fully human experience that will remind you of God's deep love for every ounce of your being.
Are you living in a reality that is crushing you? Anxiety is like a debilitating disease that can drain our lives of hope and joy. This doesn’t have to be our story. Liz has done a masterful job in helping us to “find a better story.” In thirty-one daily doses of truth, beauty, and goodness from the story of God, Liz does the heavy lifting to help us to begin to write a new story. My soul has been strengthened as I have savored these truths, and I believe this book can provide encouragement for anyone who is ready to negate the power of anxiety in their life.
What a gift! I can’t think of a more timely and needed resource for teenagers today than this! Liz, with her mental health counseling background, speaks about anxiety with intelligence and depth. What I appreciate about this resource is that it's designed for teenagers, yet Liz never talks down to them. She meets them where they are, and her approach is relatable and compassionate. This devotional is firmly rooted in God's Word; it is gracious and truthful and very practical. I plan to recommend it to youth leaders and parents alike!
Liz Edrington invites students to understand their anxiety—but even more to understand the faithfulness and goodness of their Father in heaven. Through this devotional, students really will discover themselves in God’s story and will thus be grounded in the peace of God.
I love this devotional! In our day of incredibly high levels of anxiety and stress, this book is timely, wise, Christ-honoring, and powerfully life-giving. So how about this as a plan? Please immediately get a copy of this book for every member of your youth group so they can slowly work through it. Then move to the rest of the church—do it as a congregation! We all need this, not just teenagers. Let the conversations, the breathing (you’ll get it once you read it!), and the healing begin.
In a fallen world, the experience of anxiety is inevitable. The anxiety that often accompanies life stressors can make peace elusive, can make insecurities rage, can make thinking narrow, can make identity unclear, can make fears inflame, can make trust difficult, can make worlds small, and can make physical bodies ache. From her work with young people and her own life experience, Liz Edrington knows this and creatively brings wisdom and hope from God’s Word to these realities. Through her thirty-one devotions, she taps into the felt experiences of teenage anxiety and leads teens through practical meditations and thoughtful questions that remind and assure them that “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble" (Ps. 46:1). For teens who struggle with anxiety, this book is a gift!
I finally have a resource to recommend to my anxious teenaged clients and their anxious moms and dads. Anxiety: Finding the Better Story provides the perfect blend of comforting truth with practical mindfulness skills and journal entry topics. Every Christian counselor needs this resource for their clients.
What Liz has written in this important book is an answer to my prayers for a resource for teenagers who struggle under the weight and burden of their anxieties. Each chapter in this devotional will draw them into the very heart of Christ. Truthfully, these truths ministered to me and helped me to unlock some deep-seated anxieties that I hadn’t understood in myself. This is a book I didn't know I desperately needed. The freedom and grace that it offers are a massive gift to the church. It’s so helpful, so practical, and so deeply Christ-centered: I wish every teenager could have a copy.
I trust people who neither oversimplify nor overcomplicate the significant issues of life. In a time when anxiety is the common cold of a generation, Liz has written a great resource that takes our spiritual life seriously and thoughtfully. The book does not pretend life is easier than it is—Liz takes our plight in a fallen world seriously as well. Yet God is bigger than our anxiety. Liz is a caring and gifted communicator, and I will recommend this outstanding resource over and over again.
What a gift this book is! Writing with such honesty and warmth that we know instantly we can trust her, Liz Edrington shows her anxious readers that the Jesus we meet in Scripture is not an abstract idea but a practical, reliable, and helpful Person. In each of the thirty-one days in this book, Liz leads us back to this Person and shows us the love in his eyes—love that is true comfort for the anxious soul.