Mental Illness and the Suffering Word

Affliction of mental illness torments you, or if the Past is yet too traumatic, it might not be the right time for this book. Even if you do not live with mental illness, gazing upon an unveiled Affliction is unsettling. With that in mind, A Quiet Mind to Suffer With begins proclaiming the mystery of Bryant’s faith in the midst of the Wilderness. Bryant unpacks a unique vocabulary (complete with glossary), such as Affliction or Siren (Bryant’s mental illness) and Past or a Body That Expects the World to End (trauma), which feeds Hardness of Heart (the compulsion to save yourself or to sin). Yet the forgiveness won by Christ brings Word (Understanding), the Way (Intention), and the Amen (Expectation) into the Wilderness of Affliction and History.