Book Recommendation: Polishing God’s Monuments

I know that there are book recommendations everywhere and there is only so much time.  So I don’t recommend books too quickly.  But a book that I was given for Christmas (and had finished by the next day) is one you might want to consider reading.  Polishing God’s Monuments: Pillars of Hope for Punishing Times, by Jim Andrews, is a remarkable story of a family that has suffered unlike any I have ever known or could imagine.  Alongside the engaging story of the crises is excellent instruction about suffering from one who has been there (and is still there 20 years later).  Some of the ideas I knew before, some were new, and all is packaged in a single engaging book.  If you ‘re in the midst of suffering, you ‘ll benefit from this book.  If you’ve never suffered, now is a good time to get ready.  (I learned about the book from blogger Tim Challies, who named it his favorite book of 2007.)