When God Breaks Your Heart: Choosing Hope in the Midst of Faith-Shattering Circumstances

This is a preciously honest and helpful book that I found to be one of the best books I have read in a long time. Ed Underwood has something unique to share, and I am so grateful that he cares enough for others' suffering to so honestly share his own journey of pain and deep anguish and how God led him to a glorious triumphant path, which could be walked on by many others too. And that is a truly good news!

Ed Underwood has written a life-changing book. When God Breaks Your Heart, is a true and transparent story of one man's broken heart and his walk through a valley where God's love is questioned and hope fades. Ed Underwood uses the story of the death and resurrection of Lazarus to tell us about a God whose love transforms lives. We all have broken places in our lives, experiences and ongoing challenges that rob us of joy and whisks away dreams. Places where fear, pain or tragedy threaten to extinguish our faith and our trust in a God of love. Ed expertly, and with spiritual insight rarely seen, entertwines his story and others along with the story of Lazarus and his sisters Mary and Martha to remind us that God is in the midst of our greatest anguish. God's love never fails. Even when we turn our back on Him he is there. "When God Breaks Your Heart" is a beautiful book of hope and has the power to change your life.

Wonderful book, full of insights, includes biblical references you don't have to look up if you don't want to. It's for everyone that ever felt hurt, not just for someone who has cancer like the author. I normally give away books after I read them, I'm keeping this one in by bedside drawer. I've memorized parts of it, and I know I'll re-read it again and again. What a gift to the reader!

experienced some of the deep pain of life. If you've asked 'why?' this book is for you. This open, honest, thought-provoking look at the story of Lazaras and Ed's personal story is breath taking. I couldn't put it down for the first 105 pages and then only then, because my family insisted on eating dinner. There is healing in these pages. Ed has seen real life altering pain and lived through it to continue to serve.

As many books do, this book delivers a message of faith and hope. As few books do, it shares the raw story of facing unimaginable pain and living to tell about it. It confronts the honest doubts and questions that come when life falls apart. When God Breaks Your Heart is definitely a must-read; you won't be able to put it down.