Reviews for When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God - And Joy

The average rating for When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God - And Joy based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-26 00:00:00 Dandanmre Mre I generally love John Piper, and this book did have some good stuff in it. The first and last chapter are good. However, I don't think there is any way I would ever recommend this book to someone suffering from depression. I know that it's not Piper's intention, and a non-depressed person reading it would probably understand where he's coming from just fine, but the way he approaches the subject leads me to believe that a depressed person reading this book would feel condemned and beaten down. Not helpful in that regard.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-12-31 00:00:00 Garry Abbott Unlike the cancer book, this one does apply specifically to me. I don't know if I agree with everything Piper says here, but he writes with such gentleness and such careful attention to biblical truth and the wisdom of the saints of the past that I found a great deal of comfort here. I listened to most of it last night, and when I woke up in the wee hours, was able to open my prayer app and pray through my list with greater peace and trust than I've been able to muster for months. His demeanor modeled and communicated God's care in a way that brought relief from a long sense of God's being exasperated with me that has made prayer and assurance of forgiveness nigh unto impossible. I don't know if the relief will last, but even this one day has been a blessed balm. The reader was not my favorite.